What sets apart the Cascii web-based ASCII diagram editor from similar tools is it manipulates whole shapes, not just individual characters, and can save them for further modification. Plus it's shokingly easy to self-host and run locally.

https://github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core

things i did not expect to learn through a mini-documentary about #Nebula's font design:
the person who added the gender modifier to emoji found out they're nonbinary through the process of making the proposal.
https://nebula.tv/videos/nebula-sans/

Puzzling question of the day: why are there two #emojis / #Unicode code points for tickets?

"Admission Tickets" ( U+1F39F)
"Ticket" (U+1F3AB)

The Unicode documentation seems to suggest that "admission tickets" don't refer to unique events, but merely to "access" (like to a museum); whereas "ticket" refers to performances and events.

However, almost all online emoji resource sites claim that "admission tickets" may refer to events, as well.

So: what's the rule, here?

#Unicode #Emoji: #Math #Geekiness

<U+1F605> <U+1F4A7> <U+1F604>

Hey, fedi #Unicode nerds!

#OpenStreetMap's Andy Mabbett (@Pigsonthewing) is asking whether anyone knows about any instances of the #OrdnanceSurvey's bench mark symbol appearing in actual print, on a page. Looks a bit like ⭱ or ⤒ but a broader arrow. Usually found carved on stone or brick all over the UK/ROI.

Their goal is to propose it as a Unicode symbol! https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/os-bench-mark-symbol-in-printed-documents/128182

Any known international usage of this symbol would doubtless be appreciated too

@openstreetmap

Who uses the emoji for “money”? I only know its reference to “love” used in K-pop culture.

I set my name on LinkedIn to end with a 0-width right-to-left unicode character, so everything after it is flipped, and it's *still* paying dividends

Happy #Apple ecosystem update day to all who celebrate

Newly covered #Unicode code points in iOS 18.4:

ౝ౷಄ೝഀഁഄ഻഼൏ൔൕൖ൘൙൚൛൜൝൞ൟ൶൷൸ඁ෦෧෨෩෪෫෬෭෮෯ꣾꣿ𑇡𑇢𑇣𑇤𑇥𑇦𑇧𑇨𑇩𑇪𑇫𑇬𑇭𑇮𑇯𑇰𑇱𑇲𑇳𑇴🪉🪏🪾🫆🫜🫟🫩

Unicode pictograms to mark progressively rising values:
https://www.draketo.de/anderes/unicode-icon-progressions

For Ace Maths I searched for unicode icons to mark progression: show that you’re getting better. Since I found a lot of different options (from simple sparklines to a huge list of animals), I’m collecting them in this article.

Includes a tip for somewhat better, automatic #unicode "image" suppport #LaTeX with plain #pdflatex / #pdftex

Which is your favourite #Unicode telephone?

@stuartyeates who is this "we" who is doing the excluding? And as for #Unicode, its scope is encoding plain text. Gestural signs by human bodies are not plain text, so they are out of scope for Unicode. So are smoke signals and bird calls and blues riffs. I don't get why you frame this as exclusion.

Faux gras, caractères fantaisistes, abus d’émojis : le détournement des caractères Unicode, fléau pour l’#accessibilité du #Web

On observe actuellement une mode de rédaction de messages publiés sur les réseaux sociaux donnant l'impression que le texte bénéficie d'une mise en forme particulière (gras, italique, souligné, script, etc.) grâce à certains caractères #Unicode.

Une véritable plaie pour les personnes utilisant des lecteurs d'écran !

par @lalutineduweb

https://www.lalutineduweb.fr/detournement-unicode-emojis-accessibilite/

It's kinda funny how one person's clever hack (#Unicode ZWJ sequences) can lead to anger and misinformation down the line.

Here, for whatever reason, ZWJ sequences were breaking over on #Threads and users immediately assumed anti-trans malice on the part of the platform.

It's easy to understand WHY someone would assume that in the current climate, but we've got to be careful to rule out other explanations before throwing confident accusations around. (This goes for me, too, btw.)

EDIT: Apparently it was fixed for them at some point. No doubt responded with something along the lines of "they heard our anger and feared us so they restored it!" or some such. ;)

Today in BoneQuest History for March 22nd 2020 "TWO MORE THINGS" https://bonequest.com/7672 #bonequest #9gag #coding #deuce_pants_spigot #drunk_deuce #holocaust #richie_cordell #tiffany #unicode #utf_8

#Unicode is one of those little things in life that I can't help but smile about.

Is it perfect? No, of course not. Is it better than the alternative? Yes, so much so that every time I'm confronted with a long list of character encodings I can choose from, I feel a sense of relief when I find #UTF8 among them.

I wouldn't have thought it possible to standardize a single character encoding for everyone, and yet, somehow, there is just such a standard.

As a Naw-Rúz present: if you have a Chromebook and run it on the Beta channel, you should be able to see and type the 🟙 Bahá'í nine pointed white star now. (type with ctrl-shift-u then 1f7d9 then enter). Will be in the Stable channel from the 15th of April. #bahai #nawruz #unicode

#Unicode is hard, episode 54645451 #visé #train #arriva

𝋀𝋁𝋂𝋃𝋄𝋅𝋆𝋇𝋈𝋉𝋊𝋋𝋌𝋍𝋎𝋏𝋐𝋑𝋓 #kaktovik #unicode