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i wish there was a unicode version of that thing 文A Wikipedia does for language switch
by croisillon 2y ago
i wish there was a unicode version of that thing 文A Wikipedia does for language switch
- spoiler 2y agoNot trying to be funny or anything, but you just typed the 文A thing! With some CSS you can make it indistinguishable from an icon
- croisillon 2y agono, that's a good point but it would need some recognition, a name etc
- dewey 2y agoI always find that very confusing, every time I see that in the mobile app (where it's featured pretty prominently) I'm still searching where I can see the other language version before I realize that's the symbol for it. I feel like a globe icon is much more obvious.
- graypegg 2y agoI do feel like it's made slightly more clear if it's stylized like 文<-->A Sorry for the poor attempt at ascii art. But I've seen some arrow indicating swapping/matching between the two characters. And the choice of characters does cover a huge swath of people on earth. (文 for zh_* + jp, and A for every latin, cyrillic and greek alphabet language) Of course that's still missing a huge chunk of people concerned that it might just swap between two languages not including theirs, but as a universal symbol for "translation" it's probably a good bet that the reader recognizes them as "being related to languages" at minimum since they have most certainly interacted with one of those language groups before.
- RunningDroid 2y ago文↔A Unicodified version, some fonts don't render it nice though Screenshot in case HN strips the Unicode: https://i.imgur.com/yeLxyOe.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/yeLxyOe.jpeg
- graypegg 2y agoHaha thanks! I was thinking HN would remove it like it does with emoji, good to know the arrows codepage works!