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Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#91
post #63

Doesn'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.

Roboto does have these glyphs, but only if you have a relatively recent Android version.

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#92

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You mean Unicode?

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#93
It's not actually a fancy font but different Unicode codepoints. "a" is not "𝖆" as far as Unicode is concerned. The Latin alphabet is mapped into Unicode for different uses.

In the end abuse of these characters will lead to even more variants being created covering the accented letters too. You can't leave out all the languages that have an extended alphabet, can you?

https://xkcd.com/1726/

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#94

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I don't see why screen readers can't just be extended to handle characters that look like F.

What do you think the general development budget for a screen reader is compared to the development budget for Google Search services?

Compared to the marginal cost of implementing this small additional input sanitization, both budgets are infinite.

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#95

This 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 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.

Interesting. This made me wonder about small caps. Aᴘᴘᴀʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ Gᴏᴏɢʟᴇ ᴅᴏᴇsɴ'ᴛ sᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ ᴛʜᴏsᴇ.

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#97
post #22

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Because they have uses outside of the abuse. If you always expect that they're being used improperly, then you mess up the actual use cases.

What would be an example of a string like "𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠" appearing in a context where the screen reader should not attempt to pronounce it? Note that in math usage, a lone ℝ should be pronounced exactly the same way as a lone R.

Someone using a screen reader to learn a new language.

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#98
post #74

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We called those corrupted-looking fonts "Zalgo"

Name coming from this post IIRC: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/1091116

Zalgo comic edits started on SomethingAwful many many years ago, and had a resurgence on 4chan many years ago that lead to the Zalgo text corrupter.

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#100
post #16

Very cool. I don't know if this counts as a bug as it's not really the intended use, but if I copy one of the results and then paste it into the "Write something here..." input, all the results then match the pasted style rather than being re-styled.

Thanks, this is intended. It makes the code less complicated, but also means you can add the different fonts together more easily, which is particularly good for mobile.
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