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It's funny that I can't even accomplish an emoticon in these comments while some people manage to draw complete scenes or algebraic formulas interleaved with th
by nuancebydefault 3y ago
It's funny that I can't even accomplish an emoticon in these comments while some people manage to draw complete scenes or algebraic formulas interleaved with the text.
I must admit that, unlike a lot of HN'ers, I'm using a virtual keyboard on a heldheld device to type comments; I never took the effort of looking up how it is done though it must have to do with extended char sets.
- kragen 3y agomost emoji are banned, as are nonstandard space symbols like thin space and some other things. emoticons (things like :-) and XD) are allowed. generally alphabetic characters and digits are allowed, and some other things, but i think unknown unicode is forbidden by default. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440551 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440551 has some investigation and results which are probably still accurate i do most of my algebraic formulas with the compose key and a custom compose map mostly written by mark shoulson https://github.com/kragen/xcompose https://github.com/kragen/xcompose for the above, after a false start picking random unicode characters, i realized that maybe i shouldn't use a modern language because someone who actually uses the language might feel like i was calling them an extraterrestrial, so i switched to googling archaic scripts. i pasted part of the old permic table from wikipedia >>> s = '''๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ๐โ ... U+1036x ๐ โ ๐กโ ๐ขโ ๐ฃโ ๐คโ ๐ฅโ ๐ฆโ ๐งโ ๐จโ ๐ฉโ ๐ชโ ๐ซโ ๐ฌโ ๐ญโ ๐ฎโ ๐ฏโ ... U+1037x ๐ฐโ ๐ฑโ ๐ฒโ ๐ณโ ๐ดโ ๐ตโ''' >>> print(''.join(c for c in s if ord(c) >= 0x10350)) ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฃ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ด๐ต >>> len(''.join(c for c in s if ord(c) >= 0x10350)) 38 >>> permic = (''.join(c for c in s if ord(c) >= 0x10350)) >>> ''.join(random.choice(permic) for i in range(5)) '๐จ๐๐ฐ๐๐ ' and then i tried out the hieroglyphs range >>> print(''.join(chr(i) for i in range(0x13000, 0x14000))) ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฃ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ... ๐ฟฆ๐ฟง๐ฟจ๐ฟฉ๐ฟช๐ฟซ๐ฟฌ๐ฟญ๐ฟฎ๐ฟฏ๐ฟฐ๐ฟฑ๐ฟฒ๐ฟณ๐ฟด๐ฟต๐ฟถ๐ฟท๐ฟธ๐ฟน๐ฟบ๐ฟป๐ฟผ๐ฟฝ๐ฟพ๐ฟฟ but realized that most of them were unassigned, at least in my font and probably in the current unicode standard (in case someone discovers a new hieroglyph), so i just did this >>> hiero = (''.join(chr(i) for i in range(0x13000, 0x13100))) >>> ''.join(random.choice(hiero) for i in range(4)) '๐พ๐๐๐ฉ' you can do all this in python in termux on your phone too (you'll probably have to install it from f-droid) but it's a bit clumsier it's funny how this conversation has swung from the extreme of universal constants of the universe to the opposite extreme of completely arbitrary and historically contingent things like which ideograms (themselves completely arbitrary) are prevented from being posted by implementation bugs in hacker news
- nuancebydefault 3y agoExactly a good reason why I love HN comments so much. The off-topic reply is frowned upon. Thanks so much for this, let's see if copy paste works on this unix derived os. ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฃ๐ค๐ฅ
- kragen 3y agoi'm glad you liked it!
- jtvjan 3y agoOh, they were just random hieroglyphs? I thought you made a tiny cartoon of a man flipping a table.
- kragen 3y agohahaha, that's awesome! i hadn't even noticed that it sort of looks like that