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on Tuesday January 05 2016, @12:55PM
from the emoji-are-the-modern-world's-hieroglyphics dept.
from the emoji-are-the-modern-world's-hieroglyphics dept.
Unicode version 9.0 is scheduled for release in June 2016. The final repertoire is not yet fixed, but currently 7,227 characters are scheduled for addition to Unicode 9.0, which will bring the total number of graphic and format characters in the Unicode Standard to 127,899 characters (in case you are concerned that Unicode is running out of space, that still leaves room for another 846,566 characters to be encoded). In summary, Unicode 9.0 will include 9 new blocks (named ranges of characters) and cover 4 new scripts (Osage, Bhaiksuki, Marchen and Tangut), making a total of 268 blocks and 133 scripts.
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Misfortune, n.:
The kind of fortune that never misses.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 05 2016, @01:16PM
Yes, our current setup can already handle Unicode 9.0, in case you were wondering and somewhat to my dismay. I really wish we could scrap the emoji and just support non-ascii language characters but that's strictly a personal bias and will not impact anyone having 💩in their sig.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @01:52PM
Finally I have a place where it's relevant to yell this at you: the API returns doubly encoded UTF-8. Boo! Yell!
(github sucks because they don't allow anonymous bug reports)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:17PM
Does it? Well damn. I'll see if I can fix that tonight or tomorrow. Won't take effect until this month's (hopefully) update though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by RamiK on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:20PM
Oh Mighty Buzzard. pray tell, how does one use strike-through?
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 05 2016, @04:13PM
One doesn't currently unless one has uber edity powers and then only in the stories. Easy enough to add to comments though as it's just a db setting. May add <strike> tag (or whatever the html5 proper way to do it is) support this next update.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:25PM
HTML5 removed the <strike> element in favor of the otherwise synonymous <s> element [mozilla.org], an element whose phrasing contents "represent things that are no longer relevant or no longer accurate". Contrast with the <del> and <ins> elements, which are intended for documents that include inline diffs.
Until Rehash on SoylentNews is configured to allow the <s> element, you can add ^W times the number of words to delete after the text: "I know why legislators let this piece of dung law through: brib^W campaign contr^W^W contributions to the super PACs supporting them."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @11:55PM
Yeah, the ^W (or ^H) thing was mildly amusing 20 years ago.
Not so much today.
Pretty lame, actually.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday January 06 2016, @12:18AM
Semantically, it seems like most usages of strikethrough in posts would use the tag and not the tag.
For example, "Praise be to Big Brother^H^H^HGoogle".
Here, "Big Brother" isn't "no longer relevant", but rather text deleted in the course of censorship^H^H^Hediting. So fits semantically.
Since SoylentNews doesn't allow editing posts, shouldn't ever be needed; if it's no longer accurate at the time of writing the post, don't include it at all.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday January 05 2016, @06:27PM
<s> is described as "Inaccurate text".
There's also <del> and <ins> (still tagged "non-normative") which would actually be more appropriate for all the <del>stupid jokes</del><ins>whimsical usages</ins> I had in mind... but I'm not sure it's worth it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @08:48PM
What are you talking about? The <del> and <ins> elements are standard. The only thing non-normative is the sections are the descriptions about their behavior in lists and across paragraphs.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday January 06 2016, @04:04AM
Well, I haven't really looked too hard at it so you might be right... But that's what I'm getting from it at a moment's glance.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @09:00PM
Speaking of the posting form, why are the descriptions for the posting modes so weird?
Plain Old Text: not plain old text, actually allows HTML tags
HTML formatted: POT but without preserving line endings
Extrans: What you'd expect Plain Old Text to be
Code: Extrans but wrapped in a <tt>
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 06 2016, @12:51AM
I have no idea. They were that weird when we got them. At this point I think it would confuse more people than it would make happy to rework them into something that made sense.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 06 2016, @01:16AM
Maybe an idea for the world-famous Soylent Poll Booth® [soylentnews.org]?
(Score: 3, Informative) by wisnoskij on Tuesday January 05 2016, @02:40PM
Why use pregenerated emoji, when you can roll your own? ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ ٩(-̮̮̃•̃).
What I really wonder is why Unicode allows anyone to type in 💩 like Example zalgo҉ text, lots of dirty c҉̫̞harac҉ters
Which no website or document can render in a useful way.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday January 05 2016, @08:48PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05 2016, @11:08PM
With the upcoming 9.0, you can finally make your sig
Slashdolt Logic: "18 year old jokes about [U+1F988] and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩