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Re: "A Question About the Use of Irregular UTF-8 Expressions as..."
Yeah, using available weird characters in a font is often "invented". If you want your text not searchable or otherwise parseable (think accessibility for blind people, or translation), great.
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π°οΈ lufte Β· Apr 19 at 19:39:
The semantics of a character is not always well defined (read the fascinating story of RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW at [1]) but I agree that one should consider they will not render equally (if they do at all) in all systems.
To your question of why they don't render everywhere, I know it's (at least) a combination of the available fonts (Unicode is constantly growing, and fonts need to catch up) and the capacity of the software to actually draw all symbols, even if the font has them. For example, Iced (the GUI toolkit I use for Vimini) didn't support this at all in its first versions (see [2]), and I'm not sure why it doesn't support *all* symbols yet.
βοΈ Morgan Β· Apr 21 at 10:33:
I wrote about emphasis a few times on my capsule, I'm still pretty happy with <my> suggestion on the topic, but I <<don't>> think it's likely to ever go anywhere ;)
A Question About the Use of Irregular UTF-8 Expressions as the Solution to Emphasis in Gemtext β This is a response to this post: [gemini link] This is not a new idea. Someone, somewhere, has already shown they can construct complex mathematical diagrams using this technique. However, Pandion suggests we might use this method for bold and italics in Gemtext. Background: So I was looking for a way to insert a non-breaking-space* on android, when I stumbled upon the app: πͺπ³π³π¦π¨πΆππ’π³...