argv minus one<p>The number of code pages defined by <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> for its mainframes and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IBMPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBMPC</span></a> is absolutely staggering.</p><p>Take a look: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page#IBM_code_pages" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_pag</span><span class="invisible">e#IBM_code_pages</span></a></p><p>Thank goodness for <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a>!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/i18n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>i18n</span></a></p>
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Shufei 🧮<p><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Vertical+writing&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1&ns12=1&ns200=1&ns202=1&searchToken=vtm1d09u2iyi9e668pfvpe5u" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php</span><span class="invisible">?search=Vertical+writing&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1&ns12=1&ns200=1&ns202=1&searchToken=vtm1d09u2iyi9e668pfvpe5u</span></a></p><p>It’s 2025 and:<br>- There is still no vertical text site mode for <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikimedia</span></a> in any language using vertical text.<br>- <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> still forces “simplified” Chinese on browsers.<br>- There is still no true IDS or CangJie composition matrix for characters in <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a>. <br>- SignWriting still has no proper <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> inclusion, no IDS analogue, no inventory of signs, and is still mostly written by mouse drag and drop in a mishmash of SVG and HTML.<br>- There is no proper SignWriting IME, such as a Rime schema.</p><p>To say this state of affairs is cultural propaganda by mass technic inertia would be an understatement. Infotech is functional colonialism. Thats really all there is to say.</p><p>Filed under <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/%E5%B4%87%E6%B4%8B%E5%AA%9A%E5%A4%96" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>崇洋媚外</span></a></p>
Martin Maciaszek :commodore:<p>Updated my unilookup utility. It now accepts unicode strings on stdin as well as a command line parameter. Can be installed directly from PyPi. <a href="https://github.com/fastjack/unilookup" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/fastjack/unilookup</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://maciaszek.social/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unicode</span></a> <a href="https://maciaszek.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a></p>
screwlisp<p>Real talk.</p><p>What are some other plant/insect/bird <a href="https://gamerplus.org/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unicode</span></a> characters? I thought of</p><p>🪴🌳🎄🌲🌴⸙🍃🥬🥕🥦🍁🍀🍂🍉🍏🍎🍍🌵🌿🥗🥒🥔🍈🍌🎋🍄🪵🥝🫐🫒🍠🍓🥥🍋🍇</p><p>🐛🪱🦋🪲🐝🪰🐞🐜🦟🕷🦀🦞🪳🐌🐚🦂🕸</p><p>🐥🐦🦅🐔🐓🦆🦢🐤🐣🦃🕊🐧🦉</p>
Dr. bar. met. Paul B.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lritter</span></a></span> <br>🯁🯂🯃 That's why I ❤️ <a href="https://karlsruhe-social.de/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> 😄</p>
Greg<p>Did you know that new <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/Emoji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emoji</span></a> can be proposed by anyone, simply by following some guidelines laid out by the <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> consortium? There's a time window each year where they accept proposals, and a select few might make it into future sets.</p><p>This year I turned one in: "Circuit Board", which I was surprised to find 1. didn't exist and 2. had not been proposed before (though CPU and Microchip have both been submitted and declined in the last 5 years)</p><p>You can read my proposal here:<br><a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/greg-kennedy.com/Proposal%20for%20Emoji%20%E2%80%9CCircuit%20Board%E2%80%9D.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.googleapis.com/greg-ke</span><span class="invisible">nnedy.com/Proposal%20for%20Emoji%20%E2%80%9CCircuit%20Board%E2%80%9D.pdf</span></a></p><p>and you can see the Unicode emoji proposal guidelines here:<br><a href="https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">unicode.org/emoji/proposals.ht</span><span class="invisible">ml</span></a></p><p>Anyway, the odds aren't great of getting accepted, but if it IS then you can say "hey! I know the guy who submitted that one!"</p><p>Attached are the sample images I drew up for the proposal - which, incidentally, are now Public Domain as well. Enjoy!</p>
SnoopJ<p>TIL that in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a>, U+23BE through U+23CC are a series of symbols dedicated to the notation (?!) of dentistry</p>
Eana Hufwe<p><a href="https://s.1a23.studio/tags/TIL" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TIL</a><span> </span><a href="https://s.1a23.studio/tags/Unicode" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unicode</a><span> 有计划在第三平面收录小篆、甲骨文、金文等古代文种。 </span><a href="https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/tip/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/tip/</a></p>
RevK :verified_r:<p>Ah, <a href="https://toot.me.uk/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unicode</span></a>...</p>
`Da Elf<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@doctorwhom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>doctorwhom</span></a></span> Ha! At The Mag, remember Ops got this filtering software and we decided to see if we could break it? Tox added an "@" before the <html> tag. </p><p>Browser totally rendered the page but filter wouldn't parse it because of the At 🤣🤣🤣</p><p>I think it took us three hours?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/porn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>porn</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a></p>
Sven<p>Downloading as many HTML pages that you can find that has <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/porn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>porn</span></a>. Converting all those texts to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a>. Doing text comparisons to see if there is something similar between those pages. This does not help you find/filter porn.</p><p>Somebody paid me to try this, it didn't work.</p>
SnoopJ<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>argv_minus_one</span></a></span> there are a surprising number of moving pieces here, but as with all things <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> a lot of it boils down to "the UCD stores relevant properties and software interprets those"</p><p>I don't know the entire story, but my touchpoint for this are CJK numerals like 一, 二, 三</p><p>Those cannot be converted as decimals or digits, but they *do* have a numeric value</p><p>In Python:</p><p>```<br>>>> import unicodedata<br>>>> unicodedata.decimal("三")<br>...<br>ValueError: not a decimal<br>>>> unicodedata.digit("三")<br>...<br>ValueError: not a digit<br>>>> unicodedata.numeric("三")<br>3.0<br>```</p><p>For CJK specifically this is probably related to the fact that these are often combined with other glyphs multiplicatively, and there are plenty of non-decimal glyphs.</p>
argv minus one<p>Fun fact: <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> recognizes 38 different ways to write the digits zero through nine.</p><p>You can translate them into ASCII digits, and thus parse a decimal number written in any Unicode-recognized script, by subtracting the digit's code point from the code point for zero, then adding the code point for ASCII zero.</p><p>This won't work for number systems that aren't decimal place-value, though, like Roman or Babylonian cuneiform. I don't even want to know how to parse those.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/i18n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>i18n</span></a></p>
David JONES<p>The macOS Character Viewer previews all Unicode space characters as a blank space, so finding any particular space can be a bit of a chore. Here's me trying to find PUNCTUATION SPACE.</p><p><a href="https://typo.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a></p>
SnoopJnonsense machines, derisive snark
Scripter :verified_flashing:<p>Curl-Entwickler warnt: Unicode-Trick gefährdet Softwareprojekte auf Github - Golem.de<br><a href="https://www.golem.de/news/curl-entwickler-warnt-unicode-trick-gefaehrdet-softwareprojekte-auf-github-2505-196314.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">golem.de/news/curl-entwickler-</span><span class="invisible">warnt-unicode-trick-gefaehrdet-softwareprojekte-auf-github-2505-196314.html</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Github</span></a></p>
The New Oil<p>Detecting malicious <a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a></p><p><a href="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/16/detecting-malicious-unicode/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/16</span><span class="invisible">/detecting-malicious-unicode/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a></p>
Tod Beardsley<p>A rabbit hole I don't need right now: Get <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UNICODE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNICODE</span></a> to pick up 👆 for all the fingers. We only have three so far, along with 👍 and 🖕</p>
Seth Larson<p>A(nimal Cros)SCII: mapping the character encoding for Animal Crossing GC town, player, and passwords to Unicode characters.</p><p>👉 <a href="https://sethmlarson.dev/animal-crossci" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sethmlarson.dev/animal-crossci</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/animalcrossing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>animalcrossing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gamecube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamecube</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unicode</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@bytebro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bytebro</span></a></span> </p><p>One interesting thing is that the currency symbols in the splodge picture include all of the ones that one could type on the major Windows keyboard types (Japanese, Korean, Brazilian, European, and U.S.A.), but not anything like all of the currency symbols in that are in Unicode.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/currency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>currency</span></a></p>
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