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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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It recognized my drawing of a cactus! http://i.imgur.com/pDgIOPk.png

I know this is supposed to be funny, but I had to flag it. I mean, I did found it funny, but I did not enjoyed seeing that in my work (specially because I work with kids stuff)

with kids or with kids stuff? Protip: don't click on imgur links.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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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.

worked for me: http://i.imgur.com/4EJhUpK.png

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Trying to draw U+1F4A9 (Pile of Poo). After several attempts, no luck. I have learnt that Unicode contains even more weirdness than I thought before though, including 'Alchemical symbol for borax-3' (U+1f744), and 'doughnut' (U+1f369).

http://i.imgur.com/4EJhUpK.png worked on second attempt (added the 'stink lines')

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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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

Experiments with some common glyphs. (!) -- 8th suggestion, after three apparently identical "upside-down 'i'" (including an "upside-down capital 'I' with a dot underneath") (@) -- 1st suggestion (#) -- not suggested. Top suggestion is "capital 'H' with stroke" ($) -- not suggested, although the 14th is an indistinguishable glyph "Canadian syllabics carrier sh" 0x165a, a phoenetic symbol for representing a Canadian a…

Why would you use this tool to lookup common characters found on your keyboard? Maybe a better idea is to show uncommon characters first.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Doesn't seem to include the drawing stroke order or anything, just the ultimate image. I guess if you know the strokes, you know the letter already, hm.

Are strokes order available for Unicode codepoints? I know that for many languages they're not important (for example people are free to write 't' from top-to-bottom but from bottom-to-top too) while in others stroke order is very important, like in Japanese.

However how would stroke order work for a Unicode codepoint? If it exists, there has to be a lot of info in addition to the codepoint of, say, a kanji.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know this is supposed to be funny, but I had to flag it. I mean, I did found it funny, but I did not enjoyed seeing that in my work (specially because I work with kids stuff)

with kids or with kids stuff? Protip: don't click on imgur links.

Unknown link can be redirect to imgur, so more useful hint would be block imgur links.
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