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Mike Mocha
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Yet one more #veryStupidByLowIQaa post.
Wow this is super cool! How do you make those ASCII characters? I wish I
knew how to do this stuff 30 year ago!!
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Jasen Betts
Guest
On 2023-04-11, Mike Mocha <mocha@mailexcite.com> wrote:
It\'s UTF-8 (a from of Unicode designed for ASCII channels) many of those
symbols did not exist 30 years ago.
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Jasen.
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Yet one more #veryStupidByLowIQaa post.
Wow this is super cool! How do you make those ASCII characters? I wish I
knew how to do this stuff 30 year ago!!
It\'s UTF-8 (a from of Unicode designed for ASCII channels) many of those
symbols did not exist 30 years ago.
--
Jasen.
ðºð¦ Слава УкÑаÑнÑ
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Anthony William Sloman
Guest
On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 4:30:50â¯PM UTC+10, Jasen Betts wrote:
Font designs go back a long way. Tagging UTF-8 codes onto a bunch of different fonts is tolerably recent. Persuading the people who had copyright on the fonts to let this happen automatically might have been difficult if the font designers were still alive. Copyright lapses if you have been dead for long enough.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
On 2023-04-11, Mike Mocha <mo...@mailexcite.com> wrote:
Yet one more #veryStupidByLowIQaa post.
Wow this is super cool! How do you make those ASCII characters? I wish I
knew how to do this stuff 30 year ago!!
It\'s UTF-8 (a form of Unicode designed for ASCII channels) many of those symbols did not exist 30 years ago.
Font designs go back a long way. Tagging UTF-8 codes onto a bunch of different fonts is tolerably recent. Persuading the people who had copyright on the fonts to let this happen automatically might have been difficult if the font designers were still alive. Copyright lapses if you have been dead for long enough.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
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Jasen Betts
Guest
On 2023-04-11, Anthony William Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
The script, italic, blackletter, double-struck, (etc), symbols were
added for use in mathematical formulae, where \"ð\" is a different
variable to \"e\", not merely a different emphasis. The code points
don\'t dictate a particular font (just a style), it\'s up to the
rendering system to respresent them as best as it can.
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Jasen.
ðºð¦ Слава УкÑаÑнÑ
On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 4:30:50â¯PM UTC+10, Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2023-04-11, Mike Mocha <mo...@mailexcite.com> wrote:
Yet one more #veryStupidByLowIQaa post.
Wow this is super cool! How do you make those ASCII characters? I wish I
knew how to do this stuff 30 year ago!!
It\'s UTF-8 (a form of Unicode designed for ASCII channels) many of those symbols did not exist 30 years ago.
Font designs go back a long way. Tagging UTF-8 codes onto a bunch of
different fonts is tolerably recent. Persuading the people who had
copyright on the fonts to let this happen automatically might have
been difficult if the font designers were still alive. Copyright
lapses if you have been dead for long enough.
The script, italic, blackletter, double-struck, (etc), symbols were
added for use in mathematical formulae, where \"ð\" is a different
variable to \"e\", not merely a different emphasis. The code points
don\'t dictate a particular font (just a style), it\'s up to the
rendering system to respresent them as best as it can.
--
Jasen.
ðºð¦ Слава УкÑаÑнÑ
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Anthony William Sloman
Guest
On Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 5:30:44â¯PM UTC+10, Jasen Betts wrote:
Mathematical formulae tend to use the Greek alphabet, which is a different character set, as well as a different font.
Script and italics letters are in a different font. \"Bold\" is just wider lines in the characters, though I suspect that it is actually a different font because it\'s easier to get the effect that way.
The system doesn\'t \"represent them as best it can\". That would take artificial intelligence, and you don\'t get that in cheap printers. Lots of read-only memory is much cheaper.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
On 2023-04-11, Anthony William Sloman <bill....@ieee.org> wrote:
On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 4:30:50â¯PM UTC+10, Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2023-04-11, Mike Mocha <mo...@mailexcite.com> wrote:
Yet one more #veryStupidByLowIQaa post.
Wow this is super cool! How do you make those ASCII characters? I wish I
knew how to do this stuff 30 year ago!!
It\'s UTF-8 (a form of Unicode designed for ASCII channels) many of those symbols did not exist 30 years ago.
Font designs go back a long way. Tagging UTF-8 codes onto a bunch of
different fonts is tolerably recent. Persuading the people who had
copyright on the fonts to let this happen automatically might have
been difficult if the font designers were still alive. Copyright
lapses if you have been dead for long enough.
The script, italic, blackletter, double-struck, (etc), symbols were
added for use in mathematical formulae, where \"ð\" is a different
variable to \"e\", not merely a different emphasis. The code points
don\'t dictate a particular font (just a style), it\'s up to the
rendering system to represent them as best as it can.
Mathematical formulae tend to use the Greek alphabet, which is a different character set, as well as a different font.
Script and italics letters are in a different font. \"Bold\" is just wider lines in the characters, though I suspect that it is actually a different font because it\'s easier to get the effect that way.
The system doesn\'t \"represent them as best it can\". That would take artificial intelligence, and you don\'t get that in cheap printers. Lots of read-only memory is much cheaper.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney