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Re: Show HN: unicode.style

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Not clear what this does? Also, copy button doesn’t work on iOS.

it's a wysiwyg-style editor for bold / italics / etc where it replaces the selected range with the unicode bold/etc characters. type some text, then select it. that'll give you a format editor.

A little faded gray hint could have helped :)

Re: Show HN: unicode.style

#22

Doesn't work with accented latin alphabet characters ("ü𝕓𝕖𝕣") - is it a fundamental restriction of the styled unicode charset or a mapping issue? Seems like it should be supported but would need a transition from precomposed characters to the equivalent combination of letter + diacritic.

It's not a fundamental restriction in the character set; "𝕦̈𝕓𝕖𝕣" is valid.

Re: Show HN: unicode.style

#25

Screen readers don’t do very well with this, so please only use it for novelty purposes. Otherwise you will unnecessarily be locking people out from what you write.

That really has to get fixed though.

It’s really not a screenreader’s job to guess what a character might be being pressed into service to represent in a given scenario, and to try to work out when that’s inappropriate and it should be using the original specified meaning.

Re: Show HN: unicode.style

#28

Screen readers don’t do very well with this, so please only use it for novelty purposes. Otherwise you will unnecessarily be locking people out from what you write.

Well, look forward to spammers using this to bypass the spam filters...

Re: Show HN: unicode.style

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post #13

I'm having trouble understanding what this does. Apparently there's a popover when you select the text you typed. I had to go to https://github.com/ekmartin/unicode-style to figure this out.

Yup, appears relatively hard to use via Chrome mobile with Gboard. You just about can, but most words get swallowed and the site popover is in the same place as the Android text assistance popover
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