> Dinner with Team Gollancz was an exercise in planteration — in that there was more fabby food than even tables of writers and editors could reasonably consume.
> I bowed. “Among the divisions of administration, Abdiesus, it has long been customary to exclude one—my own—from the society of the others.”
“And you feel that is unjust, which is wholly natural. Tonight, if you wish to think of it in that way, we will be making some restitution.”
“We of the guild have never complained of injustice. Indeed, we have gloried in our unique isolation. Tonight, however, the others may feel they have reason to protest to you.”
A smile twitched at his mouth. “I’m not concerned about that Here, this will get
My use-case is that I want to display Egyptian Hieroglyphics:
𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣
These are part of Unicode 5.2.
I tried installing the Aegyptus font, as well as the Google Noto fonts.
The result is t...
They prickle enough without adding more to the confection.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Now, that is what I had not previously gleaned from you. I thought some SMP codepoints were fine while others were scuppered, so I could make no tails nor heads of the mystery.
This is an endemic UTF-16 fuckup. People never make this class of error when they use either UTF-32 or UTF-8 throughout. It’s the damned UTF-16 representation that various and sundry malinformed programmers mutilate so thoroughly.
It of course does not have to be this way, but it is.
It’s an error-prone encoding that fourth-rate programmers keep screwing up.
@tchrist You know that won't really help. For one thing, nobody reads documentation, etc. You can't make people do things right. For another thing, they need to maintain binary compatibility with old UCS-2 programs. So it's not a trivial matter to just change everything.
I mean, I would love to see various dev environments fix things up to make it hard to work with text unless you are doing it right. e.g. assuming there's no default platform encoding, always requiring a character encoding name, using 4-byte unicode, etc.
I’m writing a résumé for someone and under skills I’d like to say that they have excellent skills at baking, cooking, and other kitchen-oriented things.
Not sure if I’m phrasing it right, but I want to say that they are excellent at baking and cooking with their own company.
> The .NET Framework uses the Char structure to represent a Unicode character. The Unicode Standard identifies each Unicode character with a unique 21-bit scalar number called a code point, and defines the UTF-16 encoding form that specifies how a code point is encoded into a sequence of one or more 16-bit values. Each 16-bit value ranges from hexadecimal 0x0000 through 0xFFFF and is stored in a Char structure. The value of a Char object is its 16-bit numeric (ordinal) value.
> A String object is a sequential collection of Char structures that represents a string of text. Most Unicode characters can be represented by a single Char object, but a character that is encoded as a base character, surrogate pair, and/or combining character sequence is represented by multiple Char objects. For this reason, a Char structure in a String object is not necessarily equivalent to a single Unicode character.
> Because a single character can be represented by multiple Char objects, it is not always meaningful to work with individual Char objects. For instance, the following example converts the Unicode code points that represent the Aegean numbers zero through 9 to UTF-16 encoded code units. Because it erroneously equates Char objects with characters, it inaccurately reports that the resulting string has 20 characters.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 i think the excuse is that many programmers want a string to be an array of char, and want to be able to manipulate that array using ordinary array tools. they seem to have implemented that correctly, but the docs warn you that this doesn't work once you leave the BMP
there are additional classes like StringInfo which let you do fancy unicode stuff
@tchrist You know as well as I do that it's more complicated than that. If you have a UTF-8 string in C you can't use any of the stdlib functions to deal with it. You have to take special care with every string. You have to ensure that your imported libraries also do the same. etc, etc. And because ascii is a subset of utf-8, your program may appear to work until you feed it Chinese.
@JSBձոգչ Yes, but the char could be just 4 bytes instead of 2 and it'd be fine.
Instead they made it match the old, internal Windows implementation of unicode.
@tchrist Exactly. Without using a special feature and ignoring all the old default features, everything is lost. Well, the same goes for Windows and .net and Java and perl. If you know what you're doing, full unicode support is possible. If you don't, all hope is lost.
@JSBձոգչ I think it's so that they can easily provide compatibility between Win32 and .net
part of me would like to say that a string should be an array of UTF-8 bytes, and you can go ahead and get the individual bytes if you want, but if you want the 32-bit char object then by gum you'd better invoke this here Unicode parsing state machine
@enderland It's off-topic here because we don't do writing advice. It's not asking for synonyms or anything. Workplace mods were consulted and accepted it as on-topic there following suggestions from the community here. The question concerns how best to big up a particular set of skills and how that should appear on a CV.
> The Length property returns the number of Char objects in this instance, not the number of Unicode characters. The reason is that a Unicode character might be represented by more than one Char. Use the System.Globalization.StringInfo class to work with each Unicode character instead of each Char.
Ok, I want to know what all the delayed-blast fireballs are about.
I keep getting pinged when nobody pings me, and there are no non-stealth edits, nor does anybody pop up in the roster for the stealth ones, nor am I being mentioned in some other room.
This happens now and again. I had a run of it some time ago, too. Months like.
@tchrist Is it possible you have a browser tab that is trying to play audio, but getting blocked, and then when it unblocks it suddenly plays a bunch of sounds all at once?
That used to happen to me in the old days, when my linux system could only handle one app playing sounds at once.
@RegDwigнt Looks like they’re whining about you down in Aisle Huh — unjustly so IM!HO, but so it goes.
No, I had not read your question before the edit but I have now. I think @RegDwight has completely altered the nature of your question. My answer is therefore different. The verb 'to grow up' usually refers that long process over the years from childhood to adulthood. If it meant the 2nd sense (a glimpse of children acting like adults), you (one) would probably say 'acting grown up' or 'looking grown up'. But the verb implies a passage of time. — Mynamite29 mins ago
he claims I silently downvoted him… but the only reason he knows it was me and was able to downvote me out of anger is because I told him my reasoning. I feel like I'm in a storm of mental.
Mods look at flags raised on a case by case basis. If someone has raised a flag about something you've done but you've not done anything to worry about, don't worry
@tchrist yeah sure thing I have completely changed his question. It was not in English and now it is. If I have altered its nature in the process, that is only further proof that it was completely incomprehensible to begin with.
Anyhoo, anyone involved is welcome to roll back, yet nobody involved has done so.
Meanwhile seeing how none other than Mr Fumble left a comment that's pretty much identical to what I would have commented myself, everything is in order and I can go to bed.
I underestimated them today, was wearing shorts & sandals and had to clear 5m^2 of them. Decided to just eat the pain and kick them to fragments. Still have a funny feeling in my legs five hours after.
@Cerberus I knew it from Wisconsin. Stinging nettles don’t flourish in my own immediate vicinity, preferring the lusher montane biozone 2–4 hanging kilofeet above my own theoretically semi-arid foothills one. I don’t much care for its trichomes. But we’re having flooding again, so who knows what’s next.
Notice that the biozones are not symmetric across the Continental Divide.
My use-case is that I want to display Egyptian Hieroglyphics:
𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣
These are part of Unicode 5.2.
I tried installing the Aegyptus font, as well as the Google Noto fonts.
The result is t...
I’m writing a résumé for someone and under skills I’d like to say that they have excellent skills at baking, cooking, and other kitchen-oriented things.
Not sure if I’m phrasing it right, but I want to say that they are excellent at baking and cooking with their own company.
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