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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by Clewza313 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:59PM (#26668402)
The standard/formal way to emphasize in Japanese is with bōten "side dots":

https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2018/03/furigana-dots-bout...

However, there is no easy way to enter or display these online, hence hacks like spacing.

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by jfk13 on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:23AM (#26670095)
The CSS text-emphasis property seems to work in both Safari and Firefox:

data:text/html,<div style="font:16px monospace; text-emphasis:red filled circle">Hello World

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be supported in Chrome yet.

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by totallymike on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:01AM (#26671070)
Delighted by learning this little hack for showing an html thing that you can just paste into the address bar. Thanks for showing it to me :)
Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by afiori on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:07AM (#26678933)
you might also like the instant text editor tab

data:text/html, <textarea style="font-size: 1.5em; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; outline: none; font-family:monospace" autofocus />

mostly useless but I like it

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by Tucanix on Saturday April 03, 2021 @04:46AM (#26679348)
Very short version: data:text/html, <body contenteditable>
Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by nvader on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:50PM (#26745599)
You can also paste into a <body contenteditable>.

When you land on a site with a delayed paywall, you can copy out the content just before the popup, and then paste it into <body contenteditable> to view at your own leisure.

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by infogulch on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:24PM (#26668768)
> enter or display

Hey Unicode Consortium, where you at?

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by polm23 on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:08AM (#26668948)
There's actually Unicode and CSS support for it, but it just isn't widely integrated / used.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%8F%E7%82%B9

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by hrktb on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:18AM (#26669381)
Writing horizontally the dot would be above, so I'd assume there's support by composition.

It would still be a problem of IME and font support.

On input, there's already so many shortcuts and hacks (e.g. SHIFT/CAPS is already taken to force switch from hiragana to katakana) that it's hard to imagine some natural combination that could be memorized.

On the font side, there's already the battle raging for having proper jp fonts in smarphones instead of the chinese ones, so additional support for marginal features is an uphill battle to say the least.

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Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by naikrovek on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:45PM (#26668856)
They accept suggestions, and people suggest emoji.

So suggest something that isn't emoji and it'll likely be accepted and added to the next version.

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by jmmcd on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:43AM (#26669258)
That doesn't help
Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by naikrovek on Saturday April 03, 2021 @10:26PM (#26686432)
Suggest the characters that you feel are missing... Was I not clear?
Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by jmmcd on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:48AM (#26737604)
Hmm, it looks like the discussion about emoji has been removed/moderated from the page?

Anyway, my point was only that if someone is unhappy that emojis are being added, then proposing new non-emojis doesn't really solve their problem.

Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by fouc on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:50PM (#26668881)
emoji originates from japanese mobile phones
Re:Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters by OscarCunningham on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:43AM (#26669470)
If you're ANGRY can you put several dots?