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Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by globular-toast »

d--b wrote: post #34

The name sounds really bad in French. Charcuterie is a pig butchering shop, usually associated with messy bloody stuff. The verb “charcuter” also refers to surgery done poorly. But yeah I guess the pun makes it work in english

I looked this up as I was sure boucherie is the butchering/bloody bit. I think I'm right, charcuterie means essentially the same thing as it does in English.

I didn't realise it was a French word, though, and thought the char was referring to smoking, even though I know not all charcuterie is smoked. But, in fact, char means flesh (chair) and cuterie means cookery. So it's more like "flesh-cookery" if we wished to translate it.

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by amake »

meodai wrote: post #31
tash_2s wrote: post #19

Love this. I hope it works with Japanese kanji too, because sometimes I forget the exact character but remember a similar one.

It does

It only seems to work for some subset of CJK characters. I haven't been able to figure out why some work and some don't.

For instance 叱 and 明 both seem to fail in the same way: U+1F996 T-REX in the upper left corner and the URL fragment fails to update.

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by alentred »

This is excellent. I prefer Unicode characters over images when possible, like arrows for example, but often struggle finding the exact one I need. Here I can sketch ‼ what I need and then narrow down my search. This is just perfect, many thanks. UX is easy and intuitive. Goes to my bookmarks.

Like, who knew this is even a character: ᆚ

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by Leptonmaniac »

Really good looking! Interesting UI/UX insight: I kinda expect to be able to "go back" by inverting the coordinates. So when I have one glyph in focus and select a new one two to the left and five down, I would love to be able to go back by selecting five up and two right to find the "old" glyph. Not sure how well this can be implemented.

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by ghywertelling »

meodai wrote: post #32
runeblaze wrote: post #16

> visual similarity > SigLIP 2 Maybe visual-semantic similarity is more appropriate? Nonetheless the design is fantastic

True, thanks for the feedback

One future project idea suggestion. Can we combine these characters to create new ones just like Gboard allows us to intelligently combine emojis to create new complex emojis.
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