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> Hell, you can’t even spell café, piñata, or naïve without Unicode. I must have missed something. All of those symbols are present in Extended ASCII (i.e. 8-bit).
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> These user-perceived characters are approximated by what is called a grapheme cluster, which can be determined programmatically. From everything i've read or heard about unicode, "determined programmatically" is false?
I quoted Unicode specification, so no, it's not false.
> The only modern language that gets it right is Swift: print("...".count) // => 1 And Erlang/Elixir! I guess they are not "cool" enough. But they correctly interpret that as one grapheme cluster. % erl +pc unicode > string:length("..."). 1 (... here is the U+1F926 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F emoji)
The author does refer to Elixir further down: > UPD: Erlang/Elixir seem to be doing the right thing, too.
https://github.com/tonsky/tonsky.me/commit/5fbbb373025be3758...
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The problem is not that you need character composition for some writing systems. It's that there are no rules that would help with everything having an unique representation internally. Even "put the code points forming the composed character in descending numerical order" would be better than nothing. If it was there from the start. However, the Unicode commitee is too busy adding new emojis to make their standard s…
There are rules for that, Unicode has standards (not only formal, but easily usable in most software libraries) for canonical forms that will collapse all the variations to a single representation. But, of course, unicode can't define that the standard will cover only the canonical forms, and couldn't do that since the start, as it needed backwards compatibility with various pre-unicode encodings which had mutually i…
There' your problem right there. Plural formS. It's not canonical if there are more of it.
There's one part of this document that I would push extremely hard against, and that's the notion that "extended grapheme clusters" are the one true, right way to think of characters in Unicode, and therefore any language that views the length in any other way is doing it wrong. The truth of the matter is that there are several different definitions of "character", depending on what you want to use it for. An extende…
> An extended grapheme cluster is largely defined on "this visually displays as a single unit", which isn't necessarily correct for things like "display size in a monospace font" or "thing that gets deleted when you hit backspace." I'm sorry, but I fail to see how "This visually displays as a single unit" could ever differ from "Display size in a monospace font" or "Thing that gets deleted when you hit backspace".
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It is some time ago since I last used it, but I found that too many websites that I want to read require Javascript to even show you the main body of text, or a reasonable layout. Is that different now?
No. Just whitelist the main domain for sites that are obviously broken. Then try one or two likely subdomains if that's not enough. In the rare cases where it still wants more crap enabled, then it's usually not worth the effort, close tab and move on to something else. As you build up a whitelist over time, it becomes pretty rare that you need to interact with it more than a couple times per day. Yeah, it takes some…
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Can you write them with iOS keyboard? Or when you say Apple Notes and chat apps you just mean from desktop? Edit ①: seems the answer is not with the default iOS keyboard, but possible to paste it and perhaps possible with a third party keyboard that I'm not keen on trying (unless I hear of a keyboard that's both genuinely useful / better than default, and that doesn't send keystrokes to the developer - though I can't…
Speaking of third party keyboards, I’m still upset about what happened to Nintype[0]. I’ve never ever been able to type faster on mobile than with it’s intuitive hybrid input style of sliding and tapping, paired with AI that was actually good. It used to be quite performant, fully customizable, and it worked beautifully as a replacement for default on jailbroken iOS. Today, it’s buggy $5 abandonware that only makes m…
Is it just me, or is anyone else seeing what looks like the mouse pointer of everyone else reading the page, like 1,000 little ants on the screen
turned off javascript as soon as I saw it. Like trying to read with twenty mosquitos in your face.
Anyone else hate titles like this? There are millions of developers working on a large variety of things. It sounds so arrogant to me.