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Yea, who cares about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Thai. F those languages! > text mode is the undisputed best way to display information on a computer sc
by asiachick 4y ago
Yea, who cares about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Thai. F those languages!
> text mode is the undisputed best way to display information on a computer screen
Yea, those ANSI text based maps are so readable.
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- cartesius13 4y ago>Yea, who cares about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Thai. F those languages! Despite your snarkiness, this is a perfectly valid point. If i'm not gonna use certain features in a piece of software, that feature may as well not be there. There are enough alternatives so that people that do need to use these languages are well served. But if that's not my case, there's no point in making my stuff compatible with it since it's not of any use to me
- evocatus 4y ago
- georgia_peach 4y agoIt's needlepoint with characters. Tying that to the trifecta of patriarchy, racism, & fascism is pure projection.
- evocatus 4y agoSounds like something a white supremacist would say. I suppose you also believe that people who find the "master" branch on GitHub objectionable are also "purely projecting."
- georgia_peach 4y agoI enjoy this South Park character you are playing.
- KSPAtlas 4y agomaster and slave have been used before slavery
- EarlKing 4y agoIt's actually not. Text mode doesn't mean you have to use an 8-bit code like Code Page 437. You could just as well use Unicode. It really just makes GP sound like they're looking for an excuse to be snarky and they just come off sounding ignorant.
- sigstoat 4y ago> Yea, who cares about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Thai. F those languages! do you think the necessary scripts for those languages was only displayable once GUI web browsers were developed? they're all delivered to browsers today as text (unicode certainly covers all of them simultaneously, an improvement on their situation in the 90s). i believe there are sufficient fonts to display them in text mode (gnu unifont would do at least a half-assed job of it, all in one font). what do you think is missing?
- georgia_peach 4y agoTurn off antialiasing for it, render it at the original size, and GNU Unifont is beautiful.
- anthk 4y agoGNU Unifont at size 32 on 1920x1080 it's great.
- marttt 4y agoThanks for this. I quite like how Russian characters look in GNU Unifont: https://web.archive.org/web/20180321021749/http://czyborra.com/unifont/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180321021749/http://czyborra.c... For my own needs, I prefer IBM VGA 8x16 from The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_8x16 https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_... Might try GNU Unifont now, though.
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- jordemort 4y agoTerminals that can render UTF-8 have been a thing for a while; my goofy shell prompt can attest to this. If you want to surf the multilingual web in your terminal, screenshots seem to indicate that Links (a venerable text-mode web browser) renders Unicode text just fine: http://links.twibright.com/features.php http://links.twibright.com/features.php
- colanderman 4y agoI just tested the Wikipedia home page in five different text-mode browsers. All the scripts you listed appear just fine. (Granted, none of them display comically large headings using ANSI block-pixel art like the mockup in the article, but multilingual bitmap fonts exist.)