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Generate Unicode Calendars for Markdown

115 points by nabeards 5y ago

cgijoe 5y ago
This has nothing to do with Markdown. Was that word included for SEO or something? Perhaps a better title would be "ASCII Art Calendars".
- mikestew 5y ago
  "markdown" is not to be found on the page, so it's not for SEO; the submitter (incorrectly) editorialized the title. It's also not restricted to ASCII, so your suggestion does not increase title accuracy.
  - nabeards 5y ago
    Apologies, it was sent to me as a Markdown-compatible calendar generator. Didn’t mean to editorialize the title.
fauria 5y ago
Being this a Unicode calendar generator, notice that according to the internacional standard ISO 8601 Monday is the first day of the week. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
- lifthrasiir 5y ago
  ISO 8601 is not related to Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646), but if you do care about Unicode you may notice that Unicode CLDR actually supports the preferred first day of the week as a part of locale identifiers [1] (e.g. en-US-u-fw-mon will make the first day of the week Monday, as opposed to the default Sunday for USA). [1] https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#UnicodeFirstDayIdentifier https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#UnicodeFirstDayIdentif...
- psd1 5y ago
  Yep, making Sunday the zero'th day.
  - radomir_cernoch 5y ago
    This comment made my day. :-)
  - fauria 5y ago
    :) Nice try, but I'm afraid none of the data elements related to dates are zero-indexed (ie month 0, week 0, year 0, etc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero update: technically year 0 in ISO 8601 corresponds to year 1 BC
    - jcranmer 5y ago
      > :) Nice try, but I'm afraid none of the data elements related to dates are zero-indexed (ie month 0, week 0, year 0, etc) If you ask POSIX, or any date/time API that slavishly copies POSIX (say, java.util.Date or JavaScript's Date object), January is month 0.
- dhosek 5y ago
  The definition of Monday as the first day of the week is strictly for the sake of week numbering over the course of the year and does not indicate that a calendar which displays weeks starting with Sunday violates the ISO standard.
sambeau 5y ago
This is a lovely little project but it makes no claims to be for markdown—the site makes no mention of it as far as I can see. And, of course these fun unicode calendars don't render in Markdown. Can we change the title back to "Unicode Calendar Generator"?
- eevilspock 5y ago
  Not only that, the copy to clipboard function produces text that DOES NOT render correctly when pasted into a Markdown doc.
  - nabeards 5y ago
    Interesting, it renders properly for me. I paste it in surrounded by the triple backtick.
    - kingofpandora 5y ago
      You don't put Markdown surrounded by triple backticks though... That's for code or other text that is not Markdown.
MrOxiMoron 5y ago
On Firefox for android they don't render that great, the first row is misaligned and the day indicator is all over the place.
JamesCoyne 5y ago
heh. If you overflow the date past the past about year +/- 250000 you break the website and it has to be reloaded (in Firefox at least)
- harrylepotter 5y ago
  October 31 is easier.
aloisdg 5y ago
There is a bug. October has 31 days, but the generated calendar have 30 days. Since the website doesn't seems to be open source, I cant fix it.
- jfk13 5y ago
  And February 2021 only had 27 days, apparently... hmm.
focom 5y ago
Is the lib to generate those opensource? Would love to try it
zmix 5y ago
With Pandoc's Simple Table format[1] it's as simple as (plain ASCII): : October 2021 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 the only caveat being, that "October 2021" is implemented as caption and thus will become centered. And then: pandoc -f markdown -t html -o ./pandoc-table.html ./pandoc-table.md [1]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables
- zmix 5y ago
  Now if cal(1) could produce this, that would be even more awesome. Currently it does this by default: Oktober 2021 So Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
mixmastamyk 5y ago
Try the rounded corners, looks nice: ╭────────────────────╮ │ October 2021 │ ├──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┤ │Su│Mo│Tu│We│Th│Fr│Sa│ ├──┼──┼──╔══╗──┼──┼──┤ │10│11│12║13║14│15│16│ ├──┼──┼──╚══╝──┼──┼──┤ │24│25│26│27│28│29│30│ ╰──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──╯ http://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=arc http://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=arc
- kdeldycke 5y ago
  TIL about unicode rounded corners. Thanks @mixmastamyk, you just inspired me to add support for them into the python-tabulate project: https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/pull/151 https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/pull/151

115 points by nabeards 5y ago

This has nothing to do with Markdown. Was that word included for SEO or something? Perhaps a better title would be "ASCII Art Calendars".

mikestew 5y ago
"markdown" is not to be found on the page, so it's not for SEO; the submitter (incorrectly) editorialized the title. It's also not restricted to ASCII, so your suggestion does not increase title accuracy.
- nabeards 5y ago
  Apologies, it was sent to me as a Markdown-compatible calendar generator. Didn’t mean to editorialize the title.

fauria 5y ago

Being this a Unicode calendar generator, notice that according to the internacional standard ISO 8601 Monday is the first day of the week. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

lifthrasiir 5y ago
ISO 8601 is not related to Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646), but if you do care about Unicode you may notice that Unicode CLDR actually supports the preferred first day of the week as a part of locale identifiers [1] (e.g. en-US-u-fw-mon will make the first day of the week Monday, as opposed to the default Sunday for USA). [1] https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#UnicodeFirstDayIdentifier https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#UnicodeFirstDayIdentif...
psd1 5y ago
Yep, making Sunday the zero'th day.
- radomir_cernoch 5y ago
  This comment made my day. :-)
- fauria 5y ago
  :) Nice try, but I'm afraid none of the data elements related to dates are zero-indexed (ie month 0, week 0, year 0, etc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero update: technically year 0 in ISO 8601 corresponds to year 1 BC
  - jcranmer 5y ago
    > :) Nice try, but I'm afraid none of the data elements related to dates are zero-indexed (ie month 0, week 0, year 0, etc) If you ask POSIX, or any date/time API that slavishly copies POSIX (say, java.util.Date or JavaScript's Date object), January is month 0.
dhosek 5y ago
The definition of Monday as the first day of the week is strictly for the sake of week numbering over the course of the year and does not indicate that a calendar which displays weeks starting with Sunday violates the ISO standard.

sambeau 5y ago

This is a lovely little project but it makes no claims to be for markdown—the site makes no mention of it as far as I can see. And, of course these fun unicode calendars don't render in Markdown. Can we change the title back to "Unicode Calendar Generator"?

eevilspock 5y ago
Not only that, the copy to clipboard function produces text that DOES NOT render correctly when pasted into a Markdown doc.
- nabeards 5y ago
  Interesting, it renders properly for me. I paste it in surrounded by the triple backtick.
  - kingofpandora 5y ago
    You don't put Markdown surrounded by triple backticks though... That's for code or other text that is not Markdown.

MrOxiMoron 5y ago

On Firefox for android they don't render that great, the first row is misaligned and the day indicator is all over the place.

JamesCoyne 5y ago

heh. If you overflow the date past the past about year +/- 250000 you break the website and it has to be reloaded (in Firefox at least)

harrylepotter 5y ago
October 31 is easier.

aloisdg 5y ago

There is a bug. October has 31 days, but the generated calendar have 30 days. Since the website doesn't seems to be open source, I cant fix it.

jfk13 5y ago
And February 2021 only had 27 days, apparently... hmm.

focom 5y ago

Is the lib to generate those opensource? Would love to try it

zmix 5y ago

With Pandoc's Simple Table format[1] it's as simple as (plain ASCII): : October 2021 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 the only caveat being, that "October 2021" is implemented as caption and thus will become centered. And then: pandoc -f markdown -t html -o ./pandoc-table.html ./pandoc-table.md [1]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables

zmix 5y ago
Now if cal(1) could produce this, that would be even more awesome. Currently it does this by default: Oktober 2021 So Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

mixmastamyk 5y ago

Try the rounded corners, looks nice: ╭────────────────────╮ │ October 2021 │ ├──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┬──┤ │Su│Mo│Tu│We│Th│Fr│Sa│ ├──┼──┼──╔══╗──┼──┼──┤ │10│11│12║13║14│15│16│ ├──┼──┼──╚══╝──┼──┼──┤ │24│25│26│27│28│29│30│ ╰──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──┴──╯ http://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=arc http://unicode-search.net/unicode-namesearch.pl?term=arc

kdeldycke 5y ago
TIL about unicode rounded corners. Thanks @mixmastamyk, you just inspired me to add support for them into the python-tabulate project: https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/pull/151 https://github.com/astanin/python-tabulate/pull/151