Reminds me of the excellent Detexify, which serves a similar purpose but for LaTeX symbols: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
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Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#22My 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
> "INVISIBLE TIMES"
Sounds like a Muse song title
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#23It recognized my drawing of a cactus! http://i.imgur.com/pDgIOPk.png
prickly.
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#24My 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 aboriginal language.
(%) -- 1st suggestion
(^) -- 10th suggestion, to be fair this one is impossible
(&) -- not suggested (fried shrimp lol)
(*) -- 3rd suggestion
(?) -- 1st suggestion
(∫) -- 1st suggestion
(∂) -- 4th suggestion (1st one is same thing in boldface)
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This is suggests a really easy way to greatly improve the results: weight them by a prior probability (i.e., frequency of occurrence in a letter count). The OCR itself seems pretty good. Common math symbols are more likely than silly shrimps. Glyphs from common languages are more probable than esoteric ones, and real languages more than constructed ones. Plain glyphs are more common than variants (bold/italic) -- and these should be grouped together anyway. fried shrimp horseshoe.
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#25It recognized my drawing of a cactus! http://i.imgur.com/pDgIOPk.png
Ooh my word. I drew a Skrillex and it recognized it perfectly; some Chuck Tays because he's a chill bro, school because his music appeals to people in school (12-24), and the Bengali vowel sound because he plays that in his "drops".
EDIT: forgot to link screenshot: http://imgur.com/LyaXy4h
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#26My 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
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#27Trying 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).
I tried to draw the elusive snowman: http://i.imgur.com/dr5VKTh.png
Clearly it's not impressed by my drawing skills.
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
> "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.
Re: Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
#29If you like this, see DeTeXify http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can someone tell me why 'Cat with a wry smile' is in Unicode? Presumably at some point someone thought that it would be useful to somebody else, hence it's inclusion. It would be very interesting to hear the back-story behind such seemingly useless glyphs.
These are Emoji: it's a set of smileys/icons originally used by Japanese carriers. Apple included them in their iPhone, and in order to standardise them they (successfully) requested they were added to Unicode.
The history of Emoji before they got standardized is interesting. BTW Google was a requestor too.