Marcin WicharySep 15, 2024

I built this proof of concept of a tool called https://text.makeup. It is meant to be a friendly Unicode explainer – meant not just for Unicode nerds, but nerds of any kind. Useful for debugging, but also learning.

You can go there now to play (much more fun on desktop!), but I also recorded a 5-minute video that explains it further.

I am curious: Does this feel like fun? Is it worth building out for real? What would you like to see in it if so?

Text makeup

Show threadNelson MinarSep 15, 2024
@mwichary the thing I most want to see is a per-codepoint index into the history of the writing systems. The Unicode proposals contain a remarkable amount of scholarship on writing systems, mostly buried in hard to find PDFs. The excitement about ꙮ was very popular but articles about things like Linear-B or Deseret are also fascinating and hard to access.
Show threadMarcin Wichary
@nelson Thanks! Alas I’ll have to admit this is not that interesting to me (yet).
Sep 15, 2024 at 5:43pmWeb
Show threadMarcin WicharySep 15, 2024
@nelson That link is very cool, though, and should definitely be included.