@mcdanlj thanks, I may have questions later, when the power comes back and I can use a proper computer and Internet to load stuff, rather than a phone on an overloaded local cell network
Oh. Well, all of Cyrillic for one. Or at least the bits not yet covered by Latin, Greek and Coptic scripts. And then Georgian and Armenian get their own sections too.
Try as I might, rust programming is many things but it's never, fun, or even particularly pleasant. That's a problem for things I want to do that should be fun.
> U+301C WAVE DASHOkay but encoding Celeste speed tech moves in Unicode is a step too far.(It's not that, it's an ideographic compatibility character that semantically is just a wide tilde)
> U+3037 IDEOGRAPHIC TELEGRAPH LINE FEED SEPARATOR SYMBOL is a visible indicator of the line feed separator symbol used in the Chinese telegraphic code.Again just when you think you've seen samples of all the world's weirdery Unicode has had to capture, it comes up with another banger.
I have to assume it's comparable to having that cool S kids doodle in school becoming the oldest typesetting tradition of entire societies. What a mark (ha) to leave on history.
> U+261E WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX, for example, is often used to highlight a note in text, as a kind of gaudy bullet.The Unicode spec throwing non-normative shade at your shitty powerpoints.
Really, given what we've done to writing as civilizations, is it any wonder fonts end up with a whole-ass embedded virtual machine to figure out wtf to even display
@tero @danderson @bjorn_fahller @tendstofortytwo I love my Linux Keyboard layout where I can just type “”…BTW a lot of 20th century Scottish Gaelic texts completely lack the accents on the vowels due to the standard English keyboard
> date/time types can be set to one of the four styles: ISO 8601, SQL, traditional postgres, or German.Ah yes, the four normal date/time styles that cover pretty much all needs. ISO, SQL, postgres, and German.This is such a silly profession.
