Could this be used to make better ASCII animations?
Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
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#72Amazing concept!
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#73To visually compare characters you need to map them to glyphs; what is the glyphset and how much of Unicode does it actually cover?
The only way that I can think of to respond to that question is this: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/data/fonts/fonts.css
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m a native French speaker, and “charcuterie” doesn’t really carry that negative meaning in everyday use. It’s very commonly used to mean cold cuts / prepared meats. The butcher is un charcutier, and the shop is une boucherie. La charcuterie refers to the food itself, usually cured or prepared meats (pork, cooked, smoked, dried, etc.). So the name works the same way it does in English.
I'm French too :-) I get why people use French words to name products in english, but une charcuterie, it's somewhat gross and messy. It's Gaulois in a sense. To me it clashes a lot with the look of the website which is more like Tron-ish. You wouldn't see a charcutier in Tron, would you?
Fair enough. I didn’t go for cultural or visual accuracy when naming it, I just wanted something loosely tied to characters / unicode, and the pun clicked for me. I still like it a lot.
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#75This is so cool, just bookmarked it next to https://emojidb.org/ which is what I've been using in the past for vector-based emoji search.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
aksherlee, to les crapauds, a char is a tank.
aksherlee <= nice one
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#78Amused by how many X's there are: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#1100B Did you mean Aegean Check Mark or Old North Arabian letter Teh?
We unified the entire CJK space but there was no "x" unification!
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#79This 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
I made a similar tool that in my opinion looks better and is more useful for finding characters. I feel that the tool the OP posted seems cool for short periods of entertainment, but isn't very useful for utility. Link to my website here: https://unicode-atlas.vercel.app
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#80Very impressive that I can sketch a character in the top-left and get a close match. That's a real highlight showing that there's more going on under the hood than a big look-up table.
I made a similar tool that in my opinion looks better and is more useful for finding characters. I feel that the tool the OP posted seems cool for short periods of entertainment, but isn't very useful for utility. Link to the website here: https://unicode-atlas.vercel.app