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by frivoal 12y ago
I got a moment, so I did drop you a mail:) Thanks for looping me in.
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by frivoal 12y ago
CSS is device neutral and works on things that don't have shift keys or context menus, so we can't specify the mechanism. However, we can make it allowed, or even recommended for browsers to provide a way to select anyway, even if
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by frivoal 12y ago
If you have suggestions on how to mitigate that (making the feature less useful as a copy protection without affecting (too much) the intended use, I'm happy to update the spec.
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by frivoal 12y ago
If you care for "user-select: none", you might be surprised to know that there wasn't an official spec for it to help the browsers interoperably converge, and you might be happy to learn that I just made one: http:/&#x2
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by frivoal 12y ago
The fallback font used on my computer isn't the most appropriate one, but Japanese also uses Song/Ming fonts, and this is much more similar to the difference between a serif and a sans serif font than between different characters.
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by frivoal 12y ago
The fact that some characters are debatable does not change the fact that han unification is a good idea. In a few cases you can disagree, but not unifying at all would be madness. As for this particular character (cold), both variants are
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by frivoal 12y ago
気　气 and 氣 are actually not merged by han unification, and could be described as similar to similar to Ä and Æ: shared etymology, same meaning, some languages decided to use a simpler character because the old one was too complicated to writ
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by frivoal 12y ago
Absolutely. So i/ı/I/I do have their own codepoints. But the rest of the letters, which are the same, don't. Just like han unification. Letters which are the same are the same, and those which are not are not, even if th
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by frivoal 12y ago
Ä and Æ are more different from eachother than the characters in Chinese and Japanese which have been merged. They are used for the same thing, they share etymology, but they are not the same letter. By the way, Unicode is about scripts, no
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by frivoal 12y ago
no, it isn't a more apt comparison. Antiqua and Fraktur look much more different from each other than most Chinese and Japanese characters are from eachother. Here are two screenshots in Japanese and Chinese, taken from the http:&#x2F
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by frivoal 12y ago
Han unification as a hole is misguided? I'll grant you that some characters which were unified probably shouldn't have been, and maybe some that some that should have been weren't, but what's the argument for the whole t
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by frivoal 12y ago
Not true. Anybody with an email address can send feedback. And individuals who want to be more active and become an actual member have a $75 membership fee.
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by frivoal 12y ago
The pile of poo is a great example. It is supported because the unicode consortium pays attention to the need of non western languages, not because it ignores them and would rather do silly things. Japan has had a tendency to includes all
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by frivoal 12y ago
I'm fluent in Japanese and speak some Mandarin Chinese as well. These 3 characters are identical, not similar. For a different example, 国 and 國 used to be the same character, but China and Japan (left) have both diverged the traditiona
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by frivoal 12y ago
Han unification has been overly aggressive about merging some characters, but the basic principle is not as flawed as it is some times (as in this article) made to sound. The vast majority of Japanese and Chinese characters are not only sim
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by frivoal 12y ago
title casing (and sentence casing) is one of these problems that is easy for humans to perform on a case by case basis, but hard to solve in an automated and generic way. Not only is it language dependent (and any solution baked into css ne
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by frivoal 12y ago
Easily: look outside, decide the world is still a fucked-up place, stay inside. "Normal" social interactions with other people will drag you into society, and you sure don't want that, avoid that too.
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by frivoal 15y ago
> This is ridiculous. I understand that the current IP legislation is a load of crap but trying to get ALL software to be free is absurd. How are developers going to live? How about groceries? Can I pay for that? Or that should be free
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by frivoal 16y ago
error messages that weren't obviously transliterated from French as an afterthought would be a nice start Don't worry too much about this one. I am French, and the phrasing of OCaml's error messages is just as strange before the translite