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@merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 3 months ago

The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”

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@merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 3 months ago
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    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)

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      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:)

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        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 :(

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