It sucks that #Linux tech is fragmented in terms of fonts. Like, the most sensible behavior for fonts is using one main fonts and falling back to other fonts when a given #Unicode codepoint is not found in the main one. But! my window manager uses raw #X11 APIs for text output, and these are primitive enough to just display ??? when they encounter an unfamiliar glyph. Which is... too often, because I have a lot of #Russian and a bit of #Armenian in the stuff I window manage. So I have to guess what all these question marks mean. Not cool.

I just found out that #Unicode has segment-display digit characters. The below screenshot is all in one font (#JuliaMono). The characters are U+1FBF0 to U+1FBF9. Unicode is gorgeous

Detecting malicious #Unicode

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/16/detecting-malicious-unicode/

A(nimal Cros)SCII: mapping the character encoding for Animal Crossing GC town, player, and passwords to Unicode characters.

https://sethmlarson.dev/animal-crossci

I am once again talking about how in Swedish the emoji and may both be referred to as "bläckfisk" (and are in this sense 'the same') and how this is a good example of #Unicode problems someone who speaks only English may not even realize exist

Quite comprehensive guide to #Unicode quirks: https://tonsky.me/blog/emoji/

short note on emoji text alternative variations

"Unicode symbols do not have inbuilt text alternatives. They are exposed in the browser accessibility tree as a text symbol"

#emoji #screenreaders #a11y #unicode #webDev

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2022/01/17/short-note-on-emoji-text-alternative-variations/

[main e02df00] Add to email signature

In 2025 I think I can finally allow me to do so
I promise to help whoever will tell me that my email signature isn't readable for them.

What sets apart the Cascii web-based ASCII diagram editor from similar tools is it manipulates whole shapes, not just individual characters, and can save them for further modification. Plus it's shokingly easy to self-host and run locally.

https://github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core

things i did not expect to learn through a mini-documentary about #Nebula's font design:
the person who added the gender modifier to emoji found out they're nonbinary through the process of making the proposal.
https://nebula.tv/videos/nebula-sans/

The word biáng is onomatopoeic, being said to resemble the sound of the thick noodle dough hitting a work surface.[..]

Both the traditional and simplified Chinese characters for biáng were encoded in Unicode, on 20 March 2020, for Unicode 13.0.0. The code point is U+30EDE for the traditional form (𰻞) and U+30EDD for the simplified form (𰻝).
Until that point, there were no standardized ways of entering or representing them on computers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbiang_noodles

I set my name on LinkedIn to end with a 0-width right-to-left unicode character, so everything after it is flipped, and it's *still* paying dividends

Which is your favourite #Unicode telephone?

Оказоваецо, в #Unicode есть ажно 4 разных пентаграммы!

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Durdraw 0.29.0 has been released! New features include Durview, (an artpack viewer with 16colo.rs integration), custom character sets, better handling of large files, and more. Check it out at https://github.com/cmang/durdraw

It might have taken an ungodly amount of time. But getting these corner cases right in this PDF export is going to mean the world to a lot of people.

Arabic and Hebrew and non messing up the glyphs.

Are your files too small? If so, simply re-encode each bit as one of the Unicode characters 🯰 or 🯱 (U+1fbf0/1, Segmented Digit Zero/One). Your files will be instantly sixteen times bigger, and your self-esteem will come roaring back!