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Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol

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Re: Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol

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Post by merelysounds »

Feature request: some context, history and/or example of popular usage.

Some symbols leave me with more questions than answers, like “LEFT HALF RUNNING MAN”[1].

I’d like to at least see that it’s a glyph part, that there are two in total, and what does the other half look like; right now the “right half running man” is not listed anywhere on that page, not even in the “related symbols” section.

Off topic, the running man symbol possibly comes from MouseText character set (the one in the Apple IIc[2]). It was one of many character sets included in the legacy computing block[3].

[1]: https://fontgenerator.design/symbol/left-half-running-man

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MouseText

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing

Re: Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol

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Post by layer8 »

yarlinghe wrote: post #2

Planning to add more symbol-specific notes (confusables, common pitfalls, rendering quirks). Curious what details people usually look for but can’t find.

The useful info that doesn’t already exist a dozen times on the web is the info you can’t auto-generate.

Re: Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol

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Post by catoc »

Fileformat wrote: post #38

I run a couple similar sites: FileFormat.Info[1] has a page per codepoint. It has been around awhile, so the UI isn't as whizzy, but it has all the data and works w/o JavaScript UnicodeSearch[2] is an updated search UI that uses JavaScript and the excellent Tabulator grid widget. There are actually a ton of similar sites with a page-per-codepoint. It is all fun to make one, until the bots come along and hammer every…

1. Enthusiastically try fileformat.info

2. “141 TCF vendor(s) and 69 ad partner(s) want to track you”

3. Exit :-(

Re: Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol

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Post by kmoser »

phforms wrote: post #25
keepamovin wrote: post #19

This is beautiful. Love the design. When I read the title I thought it was "one page per Unicode" so I click on the codes and hope a page will open with a giant Unicode where I can see about it in details. Oh well! Still good. When I click the "Click to copy" my UI reflex tells me to look for a "Copied!" or similar acknowledgement. But I don't see one, so there's uncertainty if it was copied safely to my invisible cl…

Don’t know if it was added after your comment, but there actually is one separate page for each character, just click the arrow in the top-right corner of each box. For more "giant" character previews I can recommend https://decodeunicode.org/en (which is more focussed on writing systems though). There is also a "Copied x" toast (is this the correct term? idk) at the bottom of the viewport when you click a character…

> There is also a "Copied x" toast (is this the correct term? idk) at the bottom of the viewport

It's obscured by the "We use optional cookies..." popup.

Re: Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol

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Post by rsync »

Clean ?

- Gratuitous, unnecessary cookies (and accompanying cookie consent dialog)

- cloudflare insights built into the pages

- non-zero counter in ublock origin

That's before we even get to the page source which contains, among other things:

  "text\":\"First, ensure you're using a modern browser. If problems persist, try refreshing the page or clearing your browser cache. Some older devices may have limited font support.\"}}
"Clean" web pages don't need hints like this - they work without clearing browser cache or worrying about "older devices".

I haven't seen this on HN in a while so it is worth reposting:

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

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