“𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑻𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒏”
Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
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Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder actually. Google seems to understand these, you can search with them. I wouldn't be surprised if screen readers understand these symbols. They're originally for Mathematics, and I'm sure there's plenty of blind mathematicians.
Wow, that's actually pretty neat: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com%... Anyone know if there are any existing libraries that do this conversion?
Look up Case Folding for how this is done, most languages have libraries to handle it.
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#63Doesn't seem to work on Android devices. All I see is missing unicode characters. Roboto doesn't seem to have have these glyphs.
On Mac, most of the glyps in the title seem to be from STIX font.
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#64It should definitely include Zalgo Text (or Cthulhu text as I know it): https://www.zalgotextgenerator.com/
I know it from the first reply here, which I would say it's a well known StackOverflow question/answer by now: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1732348/938236
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
𝕀, 𝕥𝕠𝕠, 𝕤𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕥 𝕒𝕟 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕣 𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕠𝕨 𝕥𝕠 𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕥.
In the early 2000s, unicode added a block of Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols. The styles stay constant because 𝖊, ℯ, and 𝓮 might mean different things.
𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder actually. Google seems to understand these, you can search with them. I wouldn't be surprised if screen readers understand these symbols. They're originally for Mathematics, and I'm sure there's plenty of blind mathematicians.
Wow, that's actually pretty neat: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com%... Anyone know if there are any existing libraries that do this conversion?
Here's a test page for one.
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder actually. Google seems to understand these, you can search with them. I wouldn't be surprised if screen readers understand these symbols. They're originally for Mathematics, and I'm sure there's plenty of blind mathematicians.
Wow, that's actually pretty neat: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com%... Anyone know if there are any existing libraries that do this conversion?
If you use c#:
"𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠".Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormKC);
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder actually. Google seems to understand these, you can search with them. I wouldn't be surprised if screen readers understand these symbols. They're originally for Mathematics, and I'm sure there's plenty of blind mathematicians.
Some of them are outside the mathematical range, that just happened to be the one I picked. Google has a lot of resources to do normalization, when IDNA in the URL bar became common they and other browser manufacturers had to put resources behind similar looking glyph attacks to make sure that you were actually on google.com and not on some site that was using a homoglyph attack. https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/201…
In chromium, the glyph attack defense works by normalizing to a "confusability skeleton" -- the ICU library actually does the normalization. Even within latin-1 this does some mangling: m gets normalized to rn, w to vv, etc. The query rewriting is a different problem, but it's possible it uses the confusables list as an input.
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#69Ỹ̹̼̰͚̺̥ẻ̥̏p͔̭͙̐ͪ̇͊,̤̪̯̙̣ ̰̣̼̻̺͈a̜͚̟ll ̮̼̙̗o͇f̜ t̳̬͍̤͖h̝o͉͚̩̗s̠͙̗̝̬͕ͅḙ͇̬̱͔̟ ͖̘̖͉ͅa͇̥̖͎̜͇r͓̳e͔̙͙ ̞̦͈u̪̤̳̟̞̰s̼̣̩̗i̭̯n͔̟̞͕̹g̩͇͍̗͖̻ ͕̪̮̩v͙̳͍̞͓ͅa̹̫̰ͅlịd̯͚̘̯ ̤̙A̜̪S̗͎͖̥̠̳C͇̮I͓̭̟̲I̦̟̲/̶̞̞̱͈̰̣͙̥̹̪̯͚̝͈̹̹ ̛͈̱̻͍̬̟͙̰̠̟̖̕Ú̡͉͙̻̗͙̭͉̖̖n̨̡̗̩͈̭̻͕̭͇͇̲͙̖̫̯̜͚͈ͅi͏̷̀͏̪͎̜̜̠͇̩͙̗̯͍̮̜͖̮͓͓̫c̺͉̦͓͙̤̼̰̀͠ͅo͏̯̜̥̣̯͕̻̮͘͡d̖͉͈̬͍̩͚̬̯̰̳̀́͞ͅe̡̗̻̫͕̙̘̲̫̦͉̬̖̭̺͡͝ ͖̺̳̟͓͇c̠̟͎̼̲̳h͖̣͕̯a̜͔͉̼̮r̗a̰̘̭͚̠̮̝c̱̰̦͕̰ͅͅt͉er̟͉̫͍̥̦s͈͖̤̞. ... 日本の作品も (🅙🅐🅟🅐🅝🅔🅢🅔 also w…
We called those corrupted-looking fonts "Zalgo"
the an*̶͑̾̾̅ͫ͏̙̤g͇̫͛͆̾ͫ̑͆l͖͉̗̩̳̟̍ͫͥͨe̠̅s ͎a̧͈͖r̽̾̈́͒͑e not rè̑ͧ̌aͨl̘̝̙̃ͤ͂̾̆ ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ ISͮ̂҉̯͈͕̹̘̱
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#70This is (ab)using unicode, for example the F is actually a Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital F: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D571 This is terrible for screen readers and the like which are unable to read or understand these unicode characters making accessibility a real concern.
I don't see why screen readers can't just be extended to handle characters that look like F.
Well, because it's not an F, and how would you deal with this: 𓃓 I mean it's a bull symbol.