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The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.” (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That is quite a unique quip. I love the idea of geo-based rendering, every application that renders text needs location access to be strictly correct :D.

I'd go further with the codepoint reduction, and delete w (can use uu) instead, and delete k (hard c can take its place)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

To unjerk, as it were, it was a thing. So on old systems they'd do stuff like represent æøå with the same code points as {|}. Curly brace languages must have looked pretty weird back then:)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It still is a thing in some fonts: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/font-ligatures-for-your-code-editor-and-terminal

Took me a while to work out what they were called. Font rendering is hard :(