What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Serge Wautier — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:27:04 GMT

I never figured one could create smileys using diacritics only :-)

Speaking of these 10 categories, I guess you fall in the one where people can't make a difference between Halloween and Christmas because Dec 25 and Oct 31 are no different...

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

check — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:28:18 GMT

dsfasdfsdfsdfasdf

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

aidan_walsh — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:30:35 GMT

"What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?"

Notepad getting burninated!

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Rosyna — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:04:28 GMT

Is there a smiley face hidden in there...?

à̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼͇͈͉͍͎́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́͆͊͋͌̕̚͠͡ͅ

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Michael S. Kaplan — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:39:53 GMT

Hi Rosyna,

Not intentionally -- but if you stack the right diacritics....

The Unicode version of ASCII art!!!! :-)

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Ben Cooke — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:25:22 GMT

T̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅh̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅà̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅt̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅ'̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅs̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅ ̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅà̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅm̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅà̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅz̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅì̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅǹ̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅg̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅ!̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼̀́̂̃̄̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́̕̚͠͡ͅ

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Mihai — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:23:00 GMT

This is 100% useless and I don't think there is something reasonable in the whole mess. Nobody should expect such a thing to render or sort “properly” (whatever that means).
I think software should try to solve real needs first.

In the same time I think it is cool :-) Probably in the same way some people throw paint on a wall and call it art. Is random, illogical, unexpected.

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Michael S. Kaplan — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:24:03 GMT

Hi Mihai,

Is the extreme case useless? Of course it is. But is the technology useful for handling cases that are more extreme than what we might currently do but still within user requirements? Definitely!

The fact that the very extreme case does something is a side effect of the generic framework that is put in place....

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Michael S. Kaplan — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:27:21 GMT

Hi Ben,

I agree, that is amazing. :-)

Michael

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Maurits — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:20:38 GMT

... one massive "CharNext(ch) - ch" delta.

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Michael S. Kaplan — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:48:50 GMT

Hi Maurits,

Great answer to that riddle. :-)

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Vorn — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:20:09 GMT

COOL

...I need therapy.

Vorn

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Ben Cooke — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:30:56 GMT

Further to my previous post containing a big mess of diacritics, I notice that my browser highlights only the base characters when I select that text and not the diacritics. I wonder why that is?

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Si — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:55:13 GMT

Should just add that the OpenType Layout tables that do this, 'mark to base' and 'mark to mark' glyph positioning, are also in the Windows Vista versions of Tahoma, Microsoft Sans Serif, Arial and Times New Roman. Also the marks are not just automatically centered above or below the base characters, over 80,000 combinations (per font file) were visually proofed and many combinations manually positioned to get the best results.

re: What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Mike Dunn — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:57:32 GMT

I would imagine that the stacking behavior would be preferable, just thinking of cases like Vietnamese and IPA where it's common to have 2 modifiers on a letter.

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Everybody's doing the wraparound....

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Sometimes a WCHAR really is just a character....