mkotowski

> Has anyone proposed Unicode code points for them?

There is "Background for Unicode consideration of Cistercian numerals" (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20290-cistercian-digits.pdf)

And also one in the Under-ConScript Unicode Registry for the Private Use Area (https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/) (https://www.kreativekorp.com/ucsur/charts/cistercian.html)

Many keyboard layouts use the right alt as the AltGr key for additional characters like language-specific letters or currency symbols (or at least many European ones do).

As for the right ctrl, by association with the AltGr, I usually map it as the Compose key.

Still much better when it fails at the first step. I once got myself in a bit of a struggle with Windows 10 by using "ł" as part of Windows username. Amusingly/irritatingly large number of applications, even some of Microsoft's own ones, could not cope with that.

I got curious if I can get data to answer that, and it seems so.

Based on xlsx from [0], we got the following ??d? localities in Poland:

1 x Bądy, 1 x Brda, 5 x Buda, 120 x Budy, 4 x Dudy, 1 x Dydy, 1 x Gady, 1 x Judy, 1 x Kady, 1 x Kadź, 1 x Łada, 1 x Lady, 4 x Lądy, 2 x Łady, 1 x Lęda, 1 x Lody, 4 x Łódź, 1 x Nida, 1 x Reda, 1 x Redy, 1 x Redz, 74 x Ruda, 8 x Rudy, 12 x Sady, 2 x Zady, 2 x Żydy

Certainly quite a lot to search for a lost package.

[0]: https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/188,wykaz-urzedowych-nazw-mie...

Actually, in English it is pronounced the same as in Czech and Polish: /hɛhɛ/ or /hihi/ (as far as I know). Both are written respectively as "hehe" and "hihi" and are valid expressions for denoting laughter in Polish (and as I assume, it works similarly in Czech).

> (There’s precisely one thing like this I’m aware of terminal emulators adding in recent memory: clickable links, ca. six years ago.)

And they are often disabled by default, as a potential security risk. We don't get to have fun things, do we? (also worth read: CVE-2003-0063, abusing escape seq is unfortunately a valid concern against adding more stuff).

On the other hand, more and more emulators are adding support for various graphic protocols (sixel, iTerm2 format, kitty format).

> I’ve been waiting for one or more terminal emulators to get together and add some ridiculous new escape codes[...]

Well, it's not much, but mintty apparently has some interesting stuff like audio support[0], and codes for font size and font family[1][2].

iTerm2 also has a bunch of custom escape sequences of varying level of usefulness starting from displaying fireworks animation on cursor position to sending system notifications[3] (although sadly I could not get the last one to work for me).

For some semblance of forms, you can check bubbles[4] and gum[5] (binary to easily incorporate the components into shell scripts).

[0]: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/CtrlSeqs#audio-support

[1]: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/CtrlSeqs#font-size

[2]: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/Tips#alternative-fonts

[3]: https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html

[4]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles

[5]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum

Maybe LocalSend? https://localsend.org/

Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and macOS. Seems quite cross-platform. Can confirm it works smoothly for Linux and Android at the very least.

Seems to be a variation of this "story bait" from around 2021: https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/meta-programme-fact-chec...

I guess this refers to OCI image format from Open Container Initiative: https://opencontainers.org/

Here is Containerfile from the repo: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile

Yes, but now you can run into risk of becoming 1000-tabs-open junkie like me :-)

Off-topic, but given how people try to apply LLMs to everything right now, I am surprised there is no extension or something similar to help manage bookmarked and open tabs.

There is:

> Web app for hosting asciicasts

> https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-server

and

> Web player for terminal session recordings

> https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player

Edit: From what I can see, the player has option to point to the cast file directly.

Opinion of a Polish guy: In my eyes, English is pretty bloated, when seemingly almost every concept can have three or more alternative words, each from a different source. It is all matter of perspective, I suppose. :)

I think such feeling can be caused by languages that rely strongly on creating compound words rather than borrowing a new ones (example from the site: Dictionary > Wordbook).

Actually, lingua franca originally refereed to a pidgin bridge language (also called Sabir) in use mostly by sailors and traders in the Mediterranean Basin. While it also borrowed from French, it was mostly based on Italian dialects from what I read. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca

Lately, there seems to be an avalanche of tools like DALL-E, was there some breakthrough that helped make these thinks more viable to run publicly?

And concerning creating a logo with such tools: Is there any consensus on an eventual copyright of such works?

Part of it was, yes. But going by the image from the tweet, there are many regions recovered, that belonged to the Second Polish Republic and still contained quite sizeable Polish-speaking population. [0]

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GUS_languages1931_Po...

Some more examples: - apparently ancient Egyptians had this problem with their own past, but I don’t remember where I read this. If anyone has a source, I would be thankful. - pre-indoeuropean language families in Europe, only Basque remained that we know of

Quite funny, when I read the title before checking the link, I first thought exactly about Poland voting preferences.

For anyone interested: the difference in voting exists, because the east part of Poland is less developed and more rural in general. I remember that it is so in part because of how the Russian occupation was mostly of “steal as much as we can” variety, especially compared to Germans. It is also one of the reasons that the west side has much denser railway network.

> But from a tool perspective both rust and golang support easy static binary creation […]

Honest question: As someone who knows C++ and CMake, what Rust and Go do to make it easier?

Honestly, I think part of this perception is the fact that things developed in Rust are more likely to advertise themselves as such. For example, I know that micro text editor is developed in Go only because I checked. I have no need to know this as an end-user, but many Rust-based projects seem quite eager to highlight that.

> Also w for szcz makes no sense.

Propbably an attempt to use a letter similar to <Щ, щ> graphically.

> Why "x" instead of "z" in cz/sz/rz etc. sounds?

I think it is something picked up from Esperanto. Traditional way to replace Esperanto-specific letters, when not supported, was to change it to a letter followed by an “h”, but there is also a more widely used method using “x” instead.

> ASCII is enough to write English, or, at least, it used to be back when ASCII was a multi-byte encoding for Latin!

I know of both the over-strike method for traditional typewriters and extended ASCII. But I have no knowlede of a ASCII (extended or not) supporting every sign commonly used in English. Granted, it is not as significant as other languages missing whole letters, but signs like ”,“,—,–,’, which are often replaced with simpler ASCII alternative (",') or their combination (---,--).

Over-strike, from what I remember wasn’t implemented in any well-spread way with standalone ASCII, although I could be simply not aware of it. It gives us then a few more characters rarely used in English language in loanwords (née, naïve, façade).

Skipping diacritics with uppercase letters on displays with too little space happens with Polish language too, so I am aware of the practice.

> Will there be Unicode email addresses?

Apparently, yes. [0]

> making things more equitable for other languages and cultures

Well, yes. People often hate how compilcated Unicode is, but they also tend to forget that even ASCII was not sufficient for writing English in a proper way. I am not by any means old, but even I still remember the period on the web when non-Unicode encodings were relatively common and how problematic it was.

And, with assumption that by “other cultures and languages” you mean non-English speaking regions: Tolerate is a wrong word. Most people are not English native speakers. If we would go the route of deciding who is tolerating who, nations using Chinese Hanzi and its derivatives would be probably the first to claim they tolerate all the others by the speakers’ headcount alone.

Moreover, deciding what is/can be executed is not so obvious in my opinion. PDFs can have JavaScript embedded, SVG too. Flash games? Python scripts on computers with python installed? It is not just the names, but the very knowledge of what can be considered “executable.”

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_email

That does remind me: why that even is a thing? Ordering days of a week from zero can make sense since there is Monday/Sunday as a week start divide, and this can be seen as a bypass (0/7 as Sunday and 1 as a Monday), but with months?