Each time i use https://shapecatcher.com
I'm gratefull to #BenjaminMilde to have build it and keep it running.
"You know what some #character looks like, but you've forgotten its name or its #Unicode code point. Now what do you do? #Shapecatcher is a new website, that helps you to find specific Unicode characters, just by #sketching their shape. Currently about 10000 of the most important Unicode characters are compared to your sketch and are analysed for similarities.
Under the hood, Shapecatcher uses so called " #shape contexts" to find similarities between two shapes. Shape contexts, a robust mathematical way of describing the concept of similarity between shapes, is a feature descriptor first proposed by #SergeBelongie and #JitendraMalik."

Each time i use https://shapecatcher.com
I'm gratefull to #BenjaminMilde to have build it and keep it running.
"You know what some #character looks like, but you've forgotten its name or its #Unicode code point. Now what do you do? #Shapecatcher is a new website, that helps you to find specific Unicode characters, just by #sketching their shape. Currently about 10000 of the most important Unicode characters are compared to your sketch and are analysed for similarities.
Under the hood, Shapecatcher uses so called " #shape contexts" to find similarities between two shapes. Shape contexts, a robust mathematical way of describing the concept of similarity between shapes, is a feature descriptor first proposed by #SergeBelongie and #JitendraMalik."

Three small announcements:
1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839
3. A little Go library that implements 9839’s exclusion subsets: https://github.com/timbray/RFC9839

#Unicode

Three small announcements:
1. RFC 9839, a guide to which Unicode characters you should never use: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9839.html
2. Blog piece with background and context, “RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839
3. A little Go library that implements 9839’s exclusion subsets: https://github.com/timbray/RFC9839

#Unicode

Reflecting on what I thought of "plain text" in the 90s...

#Unicode and #Markdown took "plain text" from a poor hobo interchange format to the digital lingua franca of awesomeness, and I'm here for it.

Reflecting on what I thought of "plain text" in the 90s...

#Unicode and #Markdown took "plain text" from a poor hobo interchange format to the digital lingua franca of awesomeness, and I'm here for it.

My quest at #fedicon2025 is to find #Fediverse services and handles with non-Latin characters. Can you link me to examples?
I hear there are many #Japan ese people active in Fediverse, but all the examples I see have only Latin script. #Unicode#Fedicon#Mastodon#UniversalAcceptance

My quest at #fedicon2025 is to find #Fediverse services and handles with non-Latin characters. Can you link me to examples?
I hear there are many #Japan ese people active in Fediverse, but all the examples I see have only Latin script. #Unicode#Fedicon#Mastodon#UniversalAcceptance