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Re: "How much are emoji and non-ASCII used in Geminspace over..."
I think it's used a lot but nothing critical. What's a webtv anyway?
Apr 03 · 5 months ago
i second the question. whats webtv?
🚀 Sgeo [OP] · Apr 05 at 15:52:
WebTV was a device and ISP from the late 90s that allowed people to use the web from their TV, without a computer. It had a limited understanding of HTML and low resolution. But people could use emails, listen to music in the background as they surfed the web, etc.
There's a revival community that set up servers to replicate the service, which works with both the original boxes and with WebTV simulators that the company (and then Microsoft) provided to people.
How much are emoji and non-ASCII used in Geminspace over all? I'm currently trying to allow WebTVs to use Gemini, and one major limitation is that it only supports ASCII and a subset of Windows-1252. I'm can use Twemoji in my proxy to substitute emoji, and Unifont for other things in the basic multilingual plane. How much stuff would that miss? Text presentation emoji-like things might be missed unless in the basic multilingual plane, and Twemoji likes turning text presentation characters...