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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 FreeFull »

peapicker wrote: post #70
uvdiv wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

$#& - all were my first suggestion... perhaps I draw them better than you do? :)

& only seems to work if drawn with the top loop broken.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by FreeFull »

a_p wrote: post #81

Does anyone know if the mirror image of this character: “ (U+201C) exists? I'm looking for a character that is the mirror image of the left double quotation mark, where the base is on the bottom and the character tapers from bottom right to top left. I don't know if any languages use that character.

‟ (U+201F) possibly?

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by kayge »

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #37

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 worki…

My guess was that the Good/Bad rating is to help with some sort of Machine Learning going on the background. E.g. the way I draw my Ampersand might be slightly different than yours, so if either or both of us see the result we were hoping for (&), that should get our Good rating. If it returns an (8), it may or may not deserve a Bad. If something way off appears as a top result (^), that would be pretty Bad.

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by quirm »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #94
bryze wrote: post #93

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Is that the only character you tried? Try writing "論" and see what happens..

I tried 四 and it didn't work. I guess Hiragana and Katakana work, but not Hanzi/Kanji/Hanja.

Right. Hiragana and Katakana ist trivial (just a couple of characters), but no support for Kanjis currently

Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want

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Post by quirm »

jessaustin wrote: post #71
k_bx wrote: post #16

(surprisingly noone said this) Too bad it doesn't generate links to drawing results.

Hosting uploaded images exposes sites to a great deal of annoyance.

I think there is away to not host images - I could just record strokes and play that back with js.
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