Something like a huge table for all characters of all scripts, essentially everything you could possibly ever want to enter as a part of a text anywhere. Well, this is called Unicode. Unicode is a table that maps codes to symbols and a bunch of metadata. There are different ways to ...
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As you might have guessed, synthwave tracks are also less likely to mix-and-match characters from multiple Unicode blocks. 95% of synthwave track titles use characters from only a single Unicode Block (usually Basic Latin). Compare that to vaporwave, where more than 15% of song titles use U...
I'd argue that removing characters that were previously allowed demands stronger motivation than adding support for a new character. Don't get me wrong, I believe that problematic control characters should be disallowed, but I don't think this should necessarily mean that unrelated characters have ...
I've decided to write myself a little script for a Unicode reference, since my favourite on-line Unicode look-up site has become buggy and full of ads. It's been an enjoyable project so far. I've noticed, however, that some characters are displayed incorrectly. For example, codepoint ...
Now it should work as expected (I just selected random unicode characters): Here's what happens when you code does not support the characters: But in the end, that seems to me the better compromise than not showing the characters at all ... So: there you go ;-) ... hope that ...
Some argue, however, that this is not satisfactory, pointing out as an example the need to create new characters, representing words in various Chinese dialects, more of which may be invented in the future. An alternative way, pursued by people like Chu Bong-Foo, uses encoding which provides...
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transutf8 specifies that characters that look as if they are UTF-8 already should nonetheless be translated according to the extended ASCII encoding. Do not specify this option unless unicode suggests it when you translate the file without the option, and even then, specify the option only ...
Type: Bug I use VSCode as my goto text-editor these days. It is vexing that certain "more-common" unicode characters don't render properly, while other "less-common" ones DO. After several years of waiting for a fix, I'm filing an issue...