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Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by d--b »

meodai wrote: post #58
d--b wrote: post #34

The name sounds really bad in French. Charcuterie is a pig butchering shop, usually associated with messy bloody stuff. The verb “charcuter” also refers to surgery done poorly. But yeah I guess the pun makes it work in english

I’m a native French speaker, and “charcuterie” doesn’t really carry that negative meaning in everyday use. It’s very commonly used to mean cold cuts / prepared meats. The butcher is un charcutier, and the shop is une boucherie. La charcuterie refers to the food itself, usually cured or prepared meats (pork, cooked, smoked, dried, etc.). So the name works the same way it does in English.

I'm French too :-)

I get why people use French words to name products in english, but une charcuterie, it's somewhat gross and messy. It's Gaulois in a sense. To me it clashes a lot with the look of the website which is more like Tron-ish.

You wouldn't see a charcutier in Tron, would you?

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by zeltus »

globular-toast wrote: post #41
d--b wrote: post #34

The name sounds really bad in French. Charcuterie is a pig butchering shop, usually associated with messy bloody stuff. The verb “charcuter” also refers to surgery done poorly. But yeah I guess the pun makes it work in english

I looked this up as I was sure boucherie is the butchering/bloody bit. I think I'm right, charcuterie means essentially the same thing as it does in English. I didn't realise it was a French word, though, and thought the char was referring to smoking, even though I know not all charcuterie is smoked. But, in fact, char means flesh ( chair ) and cuterie means cookery . So it's more like "flesh-cookery" if we wished to…

aksherlee, to les crapauds, a char is a tank.

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by 0xCE0 »

Unicode standard doesn't define any visual shapes for code points (except conceptual examples for some emoji-like symbols), so this is more some specific font's (that is not even mentioned/cannot be changed) glyph similarity visualization than anything to do with Unicode code point "visual exploration".

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by cammasmith »

vprcic wrote: post #54

It would seem it takes in account a bit more than "visual similarity", otherwise I can't find a good reason for "@" and "U+1F582 (BACK OF ENVELOPE)" being that close. Also, for years (decades?!) I wanted something similar in Word, for when I knew how to describe the symbol in words, but had a hard time manually searching for in the unwieldly UI. I can't believe that "insert symbol" window still doesn't have any kind…

I agree. If Word had something like this, it would be so much easier to find the symbol you're looking for.
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