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Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

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I'm guessing you mean on a desktop? On my Android phone, Firefox renders each letter as a grey box. Had to switch to Chrome to see the actual text :(

Seen a few comments like this. Old Version of Android? Because my FF on Android 8.1 renders it flawlessly.

On Android 7.1.1/Chrome: https://m.imgur.com/a/K97ohjV

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

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post #140

HN 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! ------------------------------------- 𝕀 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕪 𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕒 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕛𝕖𝕔𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕊𝕙𝕠𝕨 ℍℕ, 𝒶 𝓌ℯ𝒷𝓈𝒾𝓉ℯ 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒸ℴ𝓃𝓋ℯ𝓇𝓉𝓈 𝓉ℯ𝓍𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝓉ℴ…

TIL score = 20

Yeah, the first I learned of the term "score" was (via grade school social studies/history class) from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: ""Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent..."

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#164
post #40

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blind mathematicians don't write english to communicate in these unicode blocks... These blocks don't exist to be used for writing words in the english language.

Yes, I just mean to say, if you were creating a screen reader, it wouldn't be that hard to take this sort of thing into account. So, maybe they do. Either way, I'll add a little warning to the site.

Even if it is not hard to take this thing into account, it is definitely hard to take all the things into account. Adding more things doesn't help.

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#166

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I'm guessing you mean on a desktop? On my Android phone, Firefox renders each letter as a grey box. Had to switch to Chrome to see the actual text :(

Seen a few comments like this. Old Version of Android? Because my FF on Android 8.1 renders it flawlessly.

I get grey boxes on Pixel & Android 9 . ℬℴ𝒻... 𝒥ℯ 𝓃ℯ 𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝒶𝓈

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#167
post #73

I'm just seeing black boxes with X marks inside. Can't read a thing. This is on chrome on my Moto G4.

Update your browser (or install firefox mobile) - works just fine on my motog

Firefox just shows gray boxes. Both browsers are the latest available: 71.0.3578.98 for chrome and 63.0.2 for firefox. Automatic updates are on as is the default, I think, for everybody. There are no pending updates right now for anything. I'm using the android that came with the phone, which is stock android 7.

Anyway, the point of my post was to show that "you can use almost anywhere" should be taken with an appropriate amount of salt. I take a spoonful.

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#168
post #63

Doesn'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.

Using Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; Nokia 7 plus) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Mobile Safari/537.36 and it works fine here.

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#169
post #158

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Yes, I just mean to say, if you were creating a screen reader, it wouldn't be that hard to take this sort of thing into account. So, maybe they do. Either way, I'll add a little warning to the site.

Ah yes.. The old "if you were creating , it wouldn't be that hard to take this sort of thing into account"

Well, we live in an age of wonder, I heard they landed a man on the moon.

Re: Show HN: Fancy fonts you can use almost anywhere

#170
post #165

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Yeah I wouldn't call 48 young. Btw "4 score and 10" is still basically how the French say 90.

> Yeah I wouldn't call 48 young I read this as sarcastic/self-deprecating humor

I was just about to go to bed, when I had the thought—did i write two score? and sure enough, i did.

I meant one. I'm one score and eight.

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