Mastodawn

WTF #Unicode and #HTML, you're drunk, go home....

Source: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/weird_subject_line_choice_for_a_newsletter/post133

Once again, I can neither confirm nor deny that text editor developers may or may not be at elevated risk of getting nerd-sniped by new-to-them #unicode edge cases.

Please consume responsibly: https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

GitHub - minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings: The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.

The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. - minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

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Puppethead 21h ago

Oh fun, I had a file with a bunch of en dashes (U+2013) instead of hyphen-minus (ASCII hyphen, U+002D) in it, and parsing completely failed.

I would like Xcode (editor I use) to show unicode characters outside of ASCII range with a different background color. If it doesn't already have that capability that is my WWDC wish.

#Xcode #unicode

getinfotoyou 1d ago

Tired of googling 'copyright symbol copy paste' or digging through system character maps to find one obscure Unicode character? I got tired of that workflow too.

I built SymbolHub as a simple, no-nonsense tool to find and copy special characters instantly. It's completely free to use and stays out of your way. Whether you need a quick em dash or a specific math operator, just search, click, and paste.

#Unicode #SpecialCharacters #WebDev
https://symbolhub.getinfotoyou.com

SymbolHub | Unicode Symbols Collection - Mathematical, Currency, Arrows, Technical & More

Access thousands of Unicode symbols including degree symbol (°), right and down arrows (→,↓), emojis, and more. Easy copy and paste for all symbols including special characters like °, →, and ↓. Copy instantly with HTML codes & keyboard shortcuts.

Ecologia Digital 1d ago

“Irrespective of the current uptake…, #XML has been a success. It proved that:
.You can have a #dataInterchange format that is radically independent of your computer architecture, operating system, programming language, and application.
.The only sane text standard for modern computing is #Unicode, which in practice is affordable and reasonably straightforward to use.
…the best thing about XML is nobody has to think about it any more. Oops…you just did. Sorry bout that.”

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/06/01/XML-and-JSON-in-2026

XML and JSON in 2026

ongoing by Tim Bray

printf("%s", name);1d ago

Why does the compiler understand ASCII by default?

https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/c_lang/p/804353/why-does-the-compiler-understand-ascii-by-default

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Adam Sjøgren 2d ago

Soooo, you can use emoji-search (C-x 8 e s) for this, search for "flag: <country>" - simple as that.

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D'oh.

Hacker News 4d ago

Unicode Fonts and Tools for X11

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html

#HackerNews #Tech #Unicode

Unicode fonts and tools for X11

Information about Unicode fonts for Linux and X11 users

neville park 2d ago

PSA:

ℱ𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎 𝔘𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 ｔｈｉｓ is hell on screen readers/text to speech, so please consider hiding it behind a CW, and definitely never use it in your online handle. Don't make me name names, folks.

If styled text is *that* important to you, consider a social media platform that supports formatting markup. (E. g. ActivityPub implementations like GoToSocial support Markdown; markup in federated blog posts via WordPress, Ghost, etc., should render correctly in clients; etc.)

Learn more here: https://inputoutput.dev/accessibility-issues-with-stylized-unicode-characters/

#WebAccessibility #accessibility #a11y #Unicode