From time to time (since this represents a tremendous amount of translation/adaptation work), a French version of the "code charts" gets published by the Unicode Consortium: the latest one is for Unicode 16.0:

https://www.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/charts/fr/CodeCharts.pdf

This is especially useful for French speakers in #Canada, #France, #Belgium, #Switzerland, etc. but may soon be obsolete for #Quebec, in case it gets "absorbed" by a neighboring country whose official language is now English only...

De temps en temps (cela représente un énorme travail d'adaptation), une version française des "code charts" est publiée par le Consortium Unicode, la dernière en date est pour Unicode 16.0:

https://www.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/charts/fr/CodeCharts.pdf

Malheureusement, celle-ci risque d'être bientôt obsolète pour les francophones de la belle province de Québec, dans le cas où celle-ci serait «absorbée» par un pays voisin dont la langue officielle est désormais uniquement l'anglais...

OpenAI’s New o3/o4-mini Models Add Invisible Characters to Text, Sparking Watermark Debate

#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #GenAI #LLMs #AIModels #o3 #o4mini #AIWatermarking #Unicode #Typography #AIEthics #AISafety #AIContent

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/21/openais-new-o3-o4-mini-models-add-invisible-characters-to-text-sparking-watermark-debate-xcxwbn/

short note on emoji text alternative variations

"Unicode symbols do not have inbuilt text alternatives. They are exposed in the browser accessibility tree as a text symbol"

#emoji #screenreaders #a11y #unicode #webDev

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2022/01/17/short-note-on-emoji-text-alternative-variations/

Unicopedia Anatolica is a developer-oriented set of #Unicode utilities related to Anatolian hieroglyphs, wrapped into one single app, built with #Electron.

Repository: https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-anatolica

What is your opinion on the inclusion of #emojis in #Unicode? An answer by Nick Nicholas, a Greek linguist and data analyst residing in Melbourne, Australia.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-opinion-on-the-inclusion-of-emojis-in-Unicode

Considerations about Egyptian Hieroglyph legacy characters, by Michel Suignard, proposing to add a new kEH_AltMapping property to the Unikemet database (UAX#57):

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/25110-egyptian.pdf

Problem with special characters - PDF/UA - Screenreader:

I ran into a problem with two glyphs – 🅭 and 🅯 – when creating an accessible PDF. Text set in Source Sans 3.
Tests with InDesign/MadeToTag export and LibreOffice PDF/UA export show the following:
The PDF(s) pass the PDF/UA checks with PAC and pdfToolbox but 🅭 and 🅯 are not read aloud e.g. by Acrobat.

Is this a known issue?

🅭 (1F16D - CIRCLED CC)
🅯 (1F16F - CIRCLED HUMAN FIGURE)

Who knew memorizing #ASCII codes was #rocket science? In a world where #Unicode reigns supreme, one brave soul clings to #Ada and the digital relics of the '80s like it's a #tech Woodstock reunion. Maybe next, they'll write a utility for Morse code in COBOL.
https://coniferproductions.com/ada/ohyes/ascii-lookup-utility/ #Science #Retro #HackerNews #ngated

Understand UTF-8 and the others (16, 32) https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/ #computer #reference #unicode

"there is absolutely no good reason to not begin your architecture with support for [languages other than English]"

https://jenniferkeane.ie/have-you-ever-been-told-that-your-name-is-incorrect/

I searched on Emojipedia for "none". Wut.

I feel like this is somehow racist against frogs.

We’ve got mail #4
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An introduction to the Lovers Communication System by Yukio Ōta, designed by Loïc Marlaix a.k.a. @MoritzBrouhaha
—
And the newest edition of #Unicode à Gogo! A fanzine designed and published by him.

What sets apart the Cascii web-based ASCII diagram editor from similar tools is it manipulates whole shapes, not just individual characters, and can save them for further modification. Plus it's shokingly easy to self-host and run locally.

https://github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core

豐富文本，貧乏文本
➤ 探討數位時代文字呈現的本質與挑戰
✤ https://laemeur.sdf.org/words/D29.html
本文作者Adam Moore探討了文字呈現格式（如粗體、斜體等）在數位世界中的地位。作者認為，這些格式如同標點符號一樣，是語言表達的重要組成部分，不應被視為純粹的「裝飾」。然而，目前主流的文字編碼方式，如ASCII和Unicode，都未能有效地納入這些呈現格式的資訊，導致格式資訊需要混雜在文字數據中，造成污染。作者呼籲應將呈現格式納入文字編碼標準，並建議採用更寬廣的編碼方案來實現。
+ 這篇文章讓我重新思考了我們每天使用的文字格式，原來它們背後有如此深層的技術和哲學問題。
+ 我贊同作者的觀點，目前的文字編碼方式確實存在缺陷，希望能有更好的解決方案出現。
#科技評論 #文字編碼 #Unicode

things i did not expect to learn through a mini-documentary about #Nebula's font design:
the person who added the gender modifier to emoji found out they're nonbinary through the process of making the proposal.
https://nebula.tv/videos/nebula-sans/

The word biáng is onomatopoeic, being said to resemble the sound of the thick noodle dough hitting a work surface.[..]

Both the traditional and simplified Chinese characters for biáng were encoded in Unicode, on 20 March 2020, for Unicode 13.0.0. The code point is U+30EDE for the traditional form (𰻞) and U+30EDD for the simplified form (𰻝).
Until that point, there were no standardized ways of entering or representing them on computers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biangbiang_noodles

#Unicode #Symbols: #Diversity

U+2640 FEMALE SIGN
U+2642 MALE SIGN
U+26A2 DOUBLED FEMALE SIGN
U+26A3 DOUBLED MALE SIGN
U+26A4 INTERLOCKED FEMALE AND MALE SIGN
U+26A5 MALE AND FEMALE SIGN
U+26A6 MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
U+26A7 MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN
U+26A8 VERTICAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
U+26A9 HORIZONTAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
U+26B2 NEUTER