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Ge0rG30 years in, UTF-8 remains a mystery.cc <a href="https://mas.to/@schei_encoding" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@schei_encoding</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ScreenshotSaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScreenshotSaturday</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Neuland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Neuland</a>

argv minus one<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unicode</a> 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 <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UTF8</a> 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.<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a>

you╭👺+300╭🐈x5╭⁂+3╭(Ⓐ+ahere's what <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taggart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#taggart</a> looks like for now.showing some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/torrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#torrent</a>-ed music with tags in invalid encoding (pre-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/win1251" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#win1251</a>), and some albums ripped from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#youtube</a> with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ytdlp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ytdlp</a> (where all the tracks are concatenated):<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tengri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tengri</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tui</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/id3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#id3</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#editor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rustlang</a>

Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)wow i think i actually managed to get utf8 working in my VM? i used `setlocale(LC_ALL, ".UTF8")` and then print the UTF32 char 0x0107 ć from my program. the interpreter uses c32rtomb to convert it to UTF8 and then i fwrite that to stdoutbut the character doesn't show up in the windows console cause windows is bad. but i figured out a workaround! i put this in my run.bat file:set run=./bismuth.exe prog.bst powershell $OutputEncoding = [Console]::InputEncoding = [Console]::OutputEncoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding; %run%and it runs the VM through powershell with powershell forced to use UTF8 and then it works somehow, yay! more bizarrely, it doesn't show me the powershell prompt but the regular command prompt, but it works anyway? idk why but i'll take the win!also i have no idea if any of this is the right way to do things so, yanno, don't take this as a tutorial or anything<a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/PLDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PLDev</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/Bismuth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bismuth</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unicode</a> <a href="https://peoplemaking.games/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UTF8</a>

Indy JoenzI drew this picture of my friend Kali to demonstrate that doodling <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unicode</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ansi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ansi</a> art in a unix <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#terminal</a> is real. Also fun!<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ansiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ansiart</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/textmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#textmode</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/durdraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#durdraw</a>

Luke DornyA/B Test Oops/Whoops<a href="https://typo.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webdev</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/characterEncoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#characterEncoding</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UTF8</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/variables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variables</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/conditional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conditional</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coding</a> <a href="https://time.com/7094870/beehero-pollination-insight-platform/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://time.com/7094870/beehero-pollination-insight-platform/</a>

OblomovOK I had the distinct impression that there were now tools that could “rasterize” images to characters (similar to <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/AAlib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AAlib</a> and <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/libcaca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libcaca</a>), but with more aggressive usage of <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unicode</a> characters to achieve better results. I have tried <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/img2txt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#img2txt</a> from libcaca with the <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utf8</a> option but it's still not satisfactory compared to what I remember, even for grayscale, so … which one was it?Also <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TIL</a> that this is called <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/semigraphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#semigraphics</a> or <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/pseudographics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pseudographics</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigraphics" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigraphics</a><a href="https://sociale.network/tags/askFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#askFedi</a> <a href="https://sociale.network/tags/fediHelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediHelp</a>

postmodernHow would I go about decoding each codepoint in this \u escaped JavaScript unicode string, containing a bunch of emojis, but in Ruby? I keep getting `invalid codepoint 0xD83D in UTF-8`. It however decodes perfectly fine in Chrome DevTools JS console and Node.js.<a href="https://gist.github.com/postmodern/302b6ee9187c518c1c847b2c71702717" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/postmodern/302b6ee9187c518c1c847b2c71702717</a><a href="https://ruby.social/tags/ruby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ruby</a> <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utf8</a>

Luke DornyFirst heard it at Newsvine from Mark Budos and <a href="https://macaw.social/@mikeindustries" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mikeindustries</a> more than a decade ago: “Character encoding is (the worst)” (paraphrased)…and it’s certainly true. When working with all the various formats of text, and html entities, and UTF-8, etc., etc.… it can be very hard to get it right all of the time. <a href="https://typo.social/tags/ascii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ascii</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#text</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#typography</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#markdown</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#html</a>

lorddimwit is now @rk@well.comI’ve always wondered this. I’ve researched it briefly off and on, but never found a good answer. I’m sure it’s answered on marc.info somewhere, but:Why is luit, the tool used by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xterm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xterm</a> et al to convert legacy encodings to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UTF8</a> on the fly, called luit?In French, “luit” means “glowing” but I don’t know if that’s what was intended (and if so, I’ve always mispronounced the name of the program).<a href="https://discuss.systems/@cross" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cross</a> this seems like something you’d know or at least be able to lie convincingly about.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unix</a>

Scott Williams 🐧Have you ever stopped and pondered how insane <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utf8</a> is and marveled at just how many different parsers and renderers there are for that madness?

Elin Waring<a href="https://sciences.social/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rstats</a> What's the best way to find out whether the version of R my package is installed on is above a certain version. Specifically, is it 4.2.1 or higher on Windows? <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/skimr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#skimr</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#utf8</a> Is there a trick?

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