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Makes me wonder. Geeks are happy to learn a new keyboard layout. What about a new alphabet that can give higher on screen density of data. Now 3x3 isn't necessa
by dnnddidiej 6mo ago
Makes me wonder. Geeks are happy to learn a new keyboard layout. What about a new alphabet that can give higher on screen density of data. Now 3x3 isn't necessary because we have high res monitors. We need 26 distinguishable shapes for a-z.
In theory (focusing on non colourblind english speakers) there could be say 8 distinct colours and 8 shapes giving 64 chars.
- mchl-mumo 6mo agoThis would be insanely cool. Building characters for the digital era not for handwriting.
- DHowett 6mo agoThere was a project a while back that attempted to do this, named “Dotsies”. https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/dotsies.htm https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/dotsies.htm (original site https://www.dotsies.org https://www.dotsies.org, which has a casual introduction text that slowly transitions into dots; however, it was unavailable at the time of writing.)
- fluoridation 6mo agoDoesn't braille already cover this need?
- pjc50 6mo agoAs various Japanese developers have discovered, you can fit quite a lot of distinct characters into 8x8 if your audience is familiar with them: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/36423/is-this-8px-height-font-understandable-for-japanese-knowing-people https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/36423/is-this-8... However I don't think even native developers with full Unicode language support tend to use Japanese/Chinese characters in variable names or keywords. There is the occasional hybrid registry key such as "令和_令_Reiwa_R" (which will allow the temporary replacement of the name of the Emperor in Windows dates when the current one dies).