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� We love Unicode, characters, lettering and language. Questions about #Unicode? Just ask!

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codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf/115892795577943773

Oh look, @emojipedia, a classic!
mendeddrum.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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kilinguistics.bsky.social
Calligraphy and resistance. This is life-giving.
niaocollective.bsky.social Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 4d
The Weight of Words

For HKers, language is our identity. We speak Cantonese. We write in traditional Chinese. And during the pro-democracy protests when it seemed like no one would hear us, we just made up some new words that speak our truth.

Source: Telegram/ Ah-To (Dec 2019)
January 10, 2026 at 9:02 AM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://front-end.social/@stephaniewalter/115853940079196608

This is a nice way to visualize differences in fonts.

It’s also got a nice technical base. TIL about the t-SNE algorithm to place N-dimensional data in a 2-D space.
front-end.social
January 7, 2026 at 3:23 PM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
Are you using #emacs ? Then this post is for you:

Composing Text in Emacs: Unicode, Emojis, and the Power of C-x 8

https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/unicode-emojis

/via @publicvoit

#Unicode #emojis #editor
Composing Text in Emacs: Unicode, Emojis, and the Power of C-x 8 | Rahul's Blog
Rahul's Blog
www.rahuljuliato.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:09 PM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
Don't leave the screen reader hungry

https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/17/

The #htmhelladventcalendar entry 17 by @gerireid explores fascinating differences between visible and read out text on websites. And #Unicode makes a guest appearance in form of emoji names.
Don't leave the screen reader hungry - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
December 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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kayin.moe
using emojis in subtitles to indicate saying a word twice in different ways is so wildly modern that I am left in shock
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy
There are a lot of cursed computers things but this is the most cursed computers thing

https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/h4N78m1PjXYsYfzkGV
A screenshot showing that on macos you can use ßh as a synonym for ssh
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
For anyone who's struggled with variable spelling practices before modern printing, there's a summary of what's "interchangeable" in Thomas Wright's Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English. 2 vols. London, 1857.
#orthography #English #language #dialect #manuscripts #medieval
LETTERS, &c., COMMONLY INTERCHANGEABLE. (Wright, p. viii) a, o, and sometimes e. ar, er, or, ur. be, bi, by, as prefixes. c, s, ch, sh, sch. e, ee, i. ʒ, g, gh, y. ʒ, th. h. often omitted where it ought to be inserted, or used superfluously. i, y. k, c, ch. o, oo, ou, u. qu, wh, w. s, c.
November 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/109921008429679600

Happy #unicode Mouse day to those who celebrate
hachyderm.io
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
RTL Styling 101 – An extensive guide on how to style for right-to-left text in #css

https://rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-styling/

by @shadeed9
Right to Left Styling 101
An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS
rtlstyling.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
Do I get this right? The obfuscation technique that is used in the GlassWorm virus is basically using variation selectors instead of a-z0-9 for base64-encoding the payload?

https://www.koi.ai/blog/glassworm-first-self-propagating-worm-using-invisible-code-hits-openvsx-marketplace
GlassWorm: First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX Marketplace | Koi Blog
www.koi.ai
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
This is a written word:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uKyiBwrFgjg

Turns out there is actually text written on the Mexican flag.
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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iorsh.kishkush.net.ap.brid.gy
Glad to announce the October 2025 FontForge release.

Some interesting stuff:
* Show CNC fonts in Font View
* Harfbuzz integration
* GTK3 support kick-off

#fontforge #typography #foss #gtk #gtk3
Screenshot of letter outlines in green color Screenshot of Arabic inscription with complex connection between letters Screenshot of a simple dialog with a numerical field input
October 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
The layout of this paper is expert level trolling!

https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl/article/view/5765/4629
View of Optimal Line Length in Reading — A Literature Review
journals.uc.edu
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
What does a lowercase emoji look like?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MQp2HRZHFBA
September 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Android will *not* be getting most of the Unicode 17 updates.

Some of its fonts are over a decade out of date - and Google refuses to re-use its own Noto font stack.

I've raised the issue at:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/366415133

If you're a Googler please ask someone to prioritise […]
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mastodon.social
September 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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isotopp.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
@Edent

SET NAMES utf8mb4;

-- helper: safe code point to utf8mb4 string using JSON unescape
DELIMITER //

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS unichar//
CREATE FUNCTION unichar(cp INT)
RETURNS VARCHAR(4) CHARSET utf8mb4
DETERMINISTIC
BEGIN
DECLARE v INT;
DECLARE […]
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infosec.exchange
September 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
If you ever wondered about the difference between Sheriff and Sans-Sherif, @alvaromontoro has got you covered:

https://comicss.art/comics/190/

Part of his comiCSS series.
comiCSS #190: Sheriff
cartoon with two panels. The first one shows a sheriff with a curly mustache, curly cowboy hat, curly eyebrows, and additional shadows that make it 'fancy'; it is titled Sheriff. The second one is the same sheriff, but the mustache is straight also the eyebrows and the cowboy hat; it is titled Sans-Sheriff.
comicss.art
July 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
Oh no!

https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2025-July/011467.html

@babelstone died four days ago. Rest in Peace and thank you for all your work!

Thank you @Evertype for being the messenger of such sad news!
Andrew C. West 魏安 1960–2025
corp.unicode.org
July 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
[swearwords]

This is the reason why the site is so slow currently. Fucking useless spiders.
screenshot of an access log showing lots of requests to long-tail specific search pages
June 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
Currently the site is a bit slow. This is due to high server load. I’m at that problem and will hopefully figure it out soon.

Thanks for the patience and sorry for the inconvenience!
June 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
The Rarest Sounds in Language…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aO9wVq5aUos

a short by human1011 on YouTube.
May 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
codepoints.typo.social.ap.brid.gy
The #Unicode v17 beta review period has opened:
https://blog.unicode.org/2025/05/unicode-170-beta-review-open.html

New scripts that will be encoded in this version:

> Beria Erfe is a modern-use script used in central Africa.
>
> Chisoi is a modern-use script used in northeast India.
>
> Tolong […]
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typo.social
May 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM