I tried some diacritics letters and the site didn't handle those. Is it issue of the site? or those special characters don't include various latin based diacritics? German Umlauts? Polish ąęćłńóśźż ? etc
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting - I thought using Unicode characters would break text search capability - but when I did the old Ctrl-F 'find' in Chrome and looked for the word 'fancy', it detected all of the above. Intriguing, because in another thread here, there is mention of a gothic 'a' not being treated as a standard letter 'a'...
One of the hardest parts of Unicode is properly implementing tolower() - which is often used for text search. I haven’t delved into the symbol area of Unicode you’re talking about here but I’d bet those all evaluate to “fancy”.
[Edit]: Except that's probably not what's going on here. Someone went out of their way to treat symbols containing text as plain text for searching.
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zalgo comic edits started on SomethingAwful many many years ago, and had a resurgence on 4chan many years ago that lead to the Zalgo text corrupter.
>Zalgo comic edits started on SomethingAwful Everything started on SomethingAwful many many years ago.
All your base
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#134Doesn't seem to work on Android devices. All I see is missing unicode characters. Roboto doesn't seem to have have these glyphs. On Mac, most of the glyps in the title seem to be from STIX font.
Works for me, Chrome on OxygenOS (OnePlus).
LG G6 Stock 7.0. Everything is a grey block
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#135This is (ab)using unicode, for example the F is actually a Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital F: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D571 This is terrible for screen readers and the like which are unable to read or understand these unicode characters making accessibility a real concern.
I'd kind of expect screen readers to be able to apply Unicode compatibility decomposition http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Canon_Compat_Equivalence since there are many characters that are just visual variants. Ligatures like ffl or the like are at least somewhat common e.g. in PDFs. On the other hand, maybe that breaks other stuff and only whitelisted characters are converted. Maybe a HN reader using a screen reader c…
I'm not a regular screen reader user but VoiceOver (in macOS High Sierra) will not read the whole words, it will only say "Show HN." Because I can see there's more there, I can delve deeper and navigate character-by-character at which point it will say "f," "a," "n," "c," "y," "space," etc.
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's like saying UTF-8 requires "nonsense" pair, triplet, or quadruplet chars. UTF-16 handles all Unicode code points just fine. UCS-2 does not. Windows transitioned from UCS-2 to UTF-16 long ago.
The problem is Windows programs, not Windows per se . The difference is that UTF-8 gets tested in this regard; multi-byte encoding situations actually occurring in UTF-8 are not rare occurrences that only trigger on funny characters that nobody uses. (For that matter, four-byte UTF-8 situations are in the same boat, of course, but not two- or three-.)
> (For that matter, four-byte UTF-8 situations are in the same boat, of course, but not two- or three-.)
Yeah. Notorious example here is MySQL's "utf8" column type only supporting 3-byte UTF-8 sequences.
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#137ℍ𝕠𝕝𝕪 𝕔𝕣𝕒𝕡
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#138On my Firefox for Android, this is unreadable. I had to use Firefox on Windows to see what is this all about.
Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere
#139This is (ab)using unicode, for example the F is actually a Mathematical Bold Fraktur Capital F: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D571 This is terrible for screen readers and the like which are unable to read or understand these unicode characters making accessibility a real concern.
> This is terrible for screen readers and the like which are unable to read or understand these unicode characters making accessibility a real concern
Yes, Firefox for Android doesn't render it properly.
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#140HN is a plain-text site, so we originally buried this. But then we got an email we couldn't refuse (see below). So have at it.
All: Please don't submit stories with non-plaintext titles, and please don't post non-plaintext comments in other threads. Thanks!
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