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This is really great. Works perfectly and solves a very practical problem for me. Unicode really should do something about discoverability though.
by hashhar 9y ago
This is really great. Works perfectly and solves a very practical problem for me. Unicode really should do something about discoverability though.
- yorwba 9y agoUsing Fcitx on Linux, any Unicode character can be typed using the hotkey for the Unicode addon [1] and typing the description. So if you ever need the "arabic ligature bismillah ar-rahman ar-raheem" (﷽), it's right at your fingertips! [1] https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Unicode https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Unicode
- hashhar 9y agoWow. That is awesome. Thanks for leading me to it.
- ygra 9y agoUnicode governs standardization of the character set and related things like algorithms. That is, they are not involved in anything that relates to fonts, input methods, or other more user-facing things.
- riffraff 9y agoout of curisity, why do you usually need to discover unicode symbols?
- mdani 9y agoI am learning to read a new language- urdu. My goal is to read some old hand-written documents so I can't copy-paste the characters. But I can easily draw them and confirm my reading. This is perfect for this purpose.