@merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 3 months agoThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.worldimagemessage-square56arrow-up1405
arrow-up1405imageThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.world@merari42@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 3 months agomessage-square56
minus-squareesalinkfedilink2•edit-23 months agoTo 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:)
minus-square@CameronDev@programming.devlinkfedilink1•3 months agoIt 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 :(
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:)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 :(