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Weird that this comes up today. My Steam handle has an O and I used "negative squared Latin" characters -- I was investigating this yesterday (I found no answer
by pbhjpbhj 6y ago
Weird that this comes up today. My Steam handle has an O and I used "negative squared Latin" characters -- I was investigating this yesterday (I found no answers!).
Last year my Steam name showed properly on MS Win10 and on Kubuntu. About 6 months ago Win 10 started showing it with the O as red. Last week the red O doesn't show at all in one part of Steam but shows white in another part.
I copied the symbols to a Unicode decoder and it showed the O name with a {blood red} modifier, something like that.
I searched briefly but couldn't find the symbol without the red colour, but it only shows red in some places: I'd pasted it into the search bar in Firefox (on Kubuntu), it showed as a number-square (1Fxxx) but then after searching it showed as the red-O character.
Utf8 is weird.
- kilburn 6y agoIn case you enjoy the technical pedantry: UTF-8 is "just" an encoding scheme to represent the characters defined in the Unicode standard. There are other schemes in the standard (like UTF-16 or UCS-4). Your issue here is with the characters and their representation, not with the specific encoding. Hence, what you wanted to say is: "Unicode is weird" ;)
- framecowbird 6y agoThis is the most nicely delivered pedantry I've ever read, kudos!
- Kwpolska 6y agoHere you go: o = "\U0001F17E" black = o + "\ufe0e" red = o + "\ufe0f" print(black, red) HN seems to strip the special sequences, here it is on a pastebin instead: https://paste.debian.net/1169485/ https://paste.debian.net/1169485/ More details: http://unicode.org/faq/vs.html http://unicode.org/faq/vs.html http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/5.0/emoji-variation-sequences.txt http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/5.0/emoji-variation-sequ...
- bmn__ 6y agoKwpolska, most of your comments since 2011 are shadow banned. Occasionally HN readers vouch them back into visibility.