#Unicode has been around for a while now and I'm still seeing (on images in presentations and videos) accented letters pasted into words in a completely different font, giving the words a kind of ransom-note-made-of-cut-up-newspaper vibe.

It's not hard, guys. Find out what you're looking at, say capital O with macron, look up the unicode for it, and use one of many ways to type it in: Ō.

If the font you're using doesn't have it, use a proper font, this is the 21st century FFS.

#IØvrigtMenerJegAt det er en stor fejl at #unicode ikke har nogen #WINDSOCK glyf.

New blog post, in which I geek out over Urdu digits, Unicode, and CSS counter styles: https://saadatmand.pk/blog/of-urdu-digits-and-css-counter-styles/

#urdu #unicode #css

The fruits of this round of Special Interest are some new functionality in this toy script I wrote that infers the classification of a codepoint by calling the #Python compiler a million or so times (up to 2x per codepoint) to compile single-statement programs

Now the program can compare its own observations to the `DerivedCoreProperties.txt` file from a #Unicode release and note any discrepancies

https://snoopj.dev/pyplay/valid_identifiers.py

Not only was this fun to mess around with, it also corrected a misunderstanding I had been operating under: I previously thought that Python was following all of the default recommendations in UAX #31, but there is (to my knowledge) exactly ONE exception: U+5F LOW LINE is treated by Python as belonging to `XID_Start` rather than the default categorization under `XID_Continue`.

TIL!

RE: https://typo.social/@UnicodeWatch/115986017974875914

Another #Unicode gem discussing the meaning of alchemical symbols. Tartare salé, s'il vous plaît.

@Jain We'd love to have you, Jain!
https://www.w3.org/membership/

For Emoji standardization however, you'll have to rely on the #unicode consortium :blobcat3c:
https://home.unicode.org/emoji/about-emoji/

What's the difference between ☄ and ☄️?

The hexcodes start the same but the latter is longer:

☄: e2 98 84

☄️: e2 98 84 ef b8 8f

Are both considered to be "emoji"?

#emoji #unicode

Mon talk "à la découverte du monde au travers de l'Unicode" donné à Paris Web 2025 est désormais disponible !

https://www.paris-web.fr/2025/conference/a-la-decouverte-du-monde-au-travers-de-lunicode

Encore merci à @ParisWeb pour l'invitation.

Crédit photo Aurore Trelaün pour Paris Web.

#design #typography #unicode

@sleepycat this paper doesn't cite two relevant official #Unicode reports on the subject: "Unicode Security Mechanisms" https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/ and "Unicode Identifiers and Syntax" https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/ . Was the paper interested in solving problems, or just in collecting the engagement from pointing them out?

Font Generator - 170 polices stylées pour votre bio Instagram

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.info/fontgenerator-design-polices-unicode.html

The #Unicode for the question mark (?) is U+003F

@mina
Das mit der kuratierten /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de - Datei steht wahrscheinlich auf der prokrastinierenden #doDO​List.

Aktuell steht erst mal das programmieren der muscleMemory der neusten composeTastenOption und die Integration von Unicode into the memory an.

Interessant wäre auch, die irgendwo erwähnte EURO-#Tastatur​option zu checken, kann den Tipp hier auf diesem Server gerade nicht finden:
@utiopiarte@tupambae.org?

#ZeroWidthSpace ist in der Birne, jetzt brauch ich erst mal Tastaturaccess für ? und:
/ = uniCode U002F

@remindme DM 1day

#TodayILearned #TIL ... that you can use combining accents on the # of a #hashtag! For example #̧Cedilla. Why? Because someone, in a heroic feat of #DefensiveProgramming, thought "I bet some #weirdos will do that, I'd better deal with it sensibly". Why would weirdos like me do that? Because we're weirdos!

Also, you can pile them on top of each other! Therefore the official hashtag of #Zalgo is not #Zalgo, it is #̶̧̼͖̖̦͍͉̝̗͐̈́̏͜Zalgo.

#Unicode

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It's Monday again

https://kaomojicool.club

#ASCII #unicode #kaomoji #顔文字 #かおもじ

Full members (voting) of the Unicode Consortium (2026-01-25): Adobe, Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Translated.

🔗 https://home.unicode.org/membership/members/

Salesforce is gone, once again... on and off and on and off...

Some avatar of #Schrödinger's cat, perhaps?

#Unicode #Members

"Rather than inserting logical bugs, adversaries can attack the encoding of source code files to inject vulnerabilities.

These adversarial encodings produce no visual artifacts.

The trick is to use Unicode control characters to reorder tokens in source code at the encoding level."

#security #encodings #unicode

https://trojansource.codes/

特殊的格鲁吉亚文Unicode符号一览
https://xlbil.netlify.app/posts/special-georgian-symbols/

#Unicode

Hype for the Future 85B: Unicode Escapes for Additional Languages

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/hype-for-the-future-85b-unicode-escapes-for-additional-languages/

Hype for the Future 84C: Plan for YouTube Shorts

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/hype-for-the-future-84c-plan-for-youtube-shorts/

#Unicode 18.0 will add at least 13,000 characters.

“At UTC #185, nearly 13,000 additional characters were approved for encoding in Unicode 18.0.

The approved additions include encoding of Small Seal script ("Seal"), a repertoire of 11,328 ideographic characters. Seal is distinct from modern Han ideographs (aka, "CJK"), but is an important precursor of CJK resulting from the first efforts to standardize writing across Chinese-speaking regions during China's Qin Dynasty. As such, Seal has important cultural significance in China and for Chinese speakers throughout the world”

https://blog.unicode.org/2025/12/utc-185-highlights.html?m=1

More on seal script: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script

Nic Barker Explains ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8 https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/nic-barker-explains-ascii-unicode-and-utf-8/
#SoftwareHacks #ASCII #Unicode #UTF8