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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) (tonsky.me)
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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm still sour about text having color. Yeah I know little icons peppered forums. That's why people liked reddit! It got rid of that shit! Now it's part of the universal standard? Not just the ability to draw a turd on someone's monitor, but to have it be colored-in brown? The hell with that. You wanna have animated GIFs next? Let someone put their username in marquee? Or like right-alignment, make rainbow signatures a free gimmick that text engines have to live with.

Meanwhile the alphabet of upside-down or small-caps letters are still incomplete.

[-] eeleech@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

I agree that having some glyphs in color can be bad, for example when you are typesetting a formula in TeX that contains emoji, the color looks just unprofessional. As a solution, let me introduce you to the Noto Emoji font: https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Emoji

[-] gerryflap@feddit.nl 4 points 9 months ago

As a developer, I feel absolute pain for the people who had to convert these. There's quite some edge cases and sensitive topics to dodge here, and doing something wrong might piss people off. They must've had some lengthy meetings about a few emoji.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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As normal letters in case your screen cannot render it.You sort of end up having fonts embedded in the encoding. I understand why it happens, I'm not saying it shouldn't, but it's still a weird side effect.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

And it risks sites like this entering an arms race for attention-grabbing bullshit, where every post tries not to look like plain text. This didn't really happen to reddit because the old guard (hello) were curmudgeons. Happened to Craigslist and eBay, though, where the attention-whore behavior is directly monetized.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

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