merari42@lemmy.worldcake to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 days agoThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.worldimagemessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1380arrow-down11
arrow-up1379arrow-down1imageThe devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”lemmy.worldmerari42@lemmy.worldcake to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 2 days agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squareesa@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 day agoTo unjerk, as it were, it was a thing. So on old systems they’d do stuff like represent æøå with the same code points as {|}. Curly brace languages must have looked pretty weird back then:)
minus-squareCameronDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoIt still is a thing in some fonts: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/font-ligatures-for-your-code-editor-and-terminal Took me a while to work out what they were called. Font rendering is hard :(
To unjerk, as it were, it was a thing. So on old systems they’d do stuff like represent æøå with the same code points as
{|}. Curly brace languages must have looked pretty weird back then:)It still is a thing in some fonts: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/font-ligatures-for-your-code-editor-and-terminal
Took me a while to work out what they were called. Font rendering is hard :(