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Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by niyazpk »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #20

Sadly it didn't recognize my clumsy attempt to draw the Look of Disapproval: http://i.imgur.com/0lvPFaJ.png On the upside, I learned that there is a Panda Face unicode character.

The look of disapproval is not a single character; it comprises of three characters: [1] _ [1]

[1] http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/3232

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by wmil »

Hupo wrote: post #3

Couldn't get it to find the unicode snowman[1]: http://i.imgur.com/gaIY9Gd.png (my drawing skills are awesome, no?) But that aside, this looks like a neat idea. Not something I have any immediate use for myself, but could certainly be useful in some situations. [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm

I can't get it to recognize 'Pile of Poo' (U+1F4A9)

Major bug.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by uvdiv »

nwh wrote: post #19
uvdiv wrote: post #17

My simple, clean ampersand (&) became a paperclip (0x1f4ce), a "fried shrimp" (0x1f364), several species of geometric triangle, and dozens of other silly, silly glyphs. http://i.imgur.com/NLkl75J.png the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist??? http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf Latest Abstruse Goose comic sums up my emotional response: http://abstrusegoose.com/496

Who doesn't love 🍤? There's lot of other strange Unicode too. There's things like '⁢' (U2062 INVISIBLE TIMES), ⓞⓓⓓ ©ⓗⓐⓡⓐ©ⓣⓔⓡ ⓢⓔⓣⓢ and sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uʍop ǝpısdn. All of which can be used to bypass filters and generally cause browser-crashing havoc. For example, this address looks like Google, but it really links to hacker news. ‮ http://news.ycombinator.com/?/moc.elgoog//:ptth

Who doesn't love 🍤?

I just discovered the OS X terminal renders the friend shrimp glyph in color!

edit: and it's now my $PS1.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by flux_w42 »

Hupo wrote: post #3

Couldn't get it to find the unicode snowman[1]: http://i.imgur.com/gaIY9Gd.png (my drawing skills are awesome, no?) But that aside, this looks like a neat idea. Not something I have any immediate use for myself, but could certainly be useful in some situations. [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm

Hmm, I got the 0x26c4: Snowman without snow: ⛄

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by taejo »

nwh wrote: post #28
lloeki wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "INVISIBLE TIMES" Sounds like a Muse song title

I've never been able to work out if it is an invisible ⨉ character, or a character meant for use when things are invisible. Either way works for Muse I suppose.

It's for mathematics. Some kind of math markup may want to distinguish x times y written xy from a two-letter variable called xy. So the product is xy but is rendered xy.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by seanp2k2 »

the_gipsy wrote: post #4

Idea: instead of matching the shape of what the user has drawn raster-wise, let the user draw an svg-like path, and try to identify the letter by the trace.

Agreed that a pen tool or some type of editor would be kind of nice, but for what he's going for (proving out an idea), this is still pretty fun. I know a little of the science behind it, but it'd be great to read through some well-commented source code. He did link in the thesis on this, however: http://shapecatcher.com/B_Milde%20-%20On%20The%20Security%20...

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by ChrisNorstrom »

Very nice and amazingly accurate. But am I using your website the right way? When I look through the characters in the search results, if I see one that isn't rendering on my computer and just has a block instead of the symbol. I've been clicking on "bad" for "rate this suggestion". Thinking that it tallies up the total good/bad for a character to mean "how likely people are to have this character installed and working on their computers".

However, I now have a feeling that's not what that feature is for.

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