Unicode Text Transformer
January 31, 2020 6:59 AM Subscribe
Unicode Text Transformer
This little web toy converts latin text into unicode variants. It translates spaces and some punctuation into full-width variants when the glyphs in the variant are generally square-ish, otherwise it leaves them alone. ππ¬π² π ππ« π²π°π’ π¦π± π±π¬ πͺππ¨π’ π±π’π΅π± π©π¦π¨π’ π±π₯π¦π°. ππ·π π½π±π²πΌ.
This little web toy converts latin text into unicode variants. It translates spaces and some punctuation into full-width variants when the glyphs in the variant are generally square-ish, otherwise it leaves them alone. ππ¬π² π ππ« π²π°π’ π¦π± π±π¬ πͺππ¨π’ π±π’π΅π± π©π¦π¨π’ π±π₯π¦π°. ππ·π π½π±π²πΌ.
Role: programmer
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The input "george" uses the weird g twice, but "king george" looks fine. Very strange!
Anyway, a neat toy!
posted by jedicus at 10:01 AM on January 31, 2020
Anyway, a neat toy!
posted by jedicus at 10:01 AM on January 31, 2020
Chrome on Mac OS 10.13. Screenshot of "king george" displaying properly.
None of the g's display properly on Safari. On Firefox, curiously, it's king
posted by jedicus at 7:23 PM on January 31, 2020
None of the g's display properly on Safari. On Firefox, curiously, it's king
george. In conclusion, Unicode is a land of contrast.posted by jedicus at 7:23 PM on January 31, 2020
Neat!
I didn't realize that Unicode had bold and italic glyphs. I thought this might be a sneaky way to add formatting to Facebook posts β but, unfortunately, it seems that Facebook is clever enough to convert these glyphs to the normal equivalents when I paste them in.
(Most of the other glyphs I tried can be pasted into Facebook. It even works with Zalgo text, surprisingly.)
posted by escape from the potato planet at 10:06 AM on February 2, 2020
I didn't realize that Unicode had bold and italic glyphs. I thought this might be a sneaky way to add formatting to Facebook posts β but, unfortunately, it seems that Facebook is clever enough to convert these glyphs to the normal equivalents when I paste them in.
(Most of the other glyphs I tried can be pasted into Facebook. It even works with Zalgo text, surprisingly.)
posted by escape from the potato planet at 10:06 AM on February 2, 2020
I take it back βΒ pasting bold and italics into Facebook does work. I'm not sure why I thought it wasn't working before. (I'm seeing them in a serif font on my machine, though, which doesn't really work with Facebook's default font.)
posted by escape from the potato planet at 10:08 AM on February 2, 2020
posted by escape from the potato planet at 10:08 AM on February 2, 2020
This is nice, I made a similar tool years ago for ππ©ππ π¨π©π’π±π±π’π―. For a long time a lot of sites either filtered or mangled unicode codepoints but the rise of smilies has forced sites to accept them. β
posted by AndrewStephens at 10:19 AM on February 3, 2020
posted by AndrewStephens at 10:19 AM on February 3, 2020
Completely mangles screen reader and other accessibility tools, though. Thanks for the warning header, but best not to encourage this sort of thing at all.
posted by scruss at 2:16 PM on February 4, 2020
posted by scruss at 2:16 PM on February 4, 2020
βπ π π!
posted by metasunday at 7:59 AM on February 6, 2020
posted by metasunday at 7:59 AM on February 6, 2020
MetaTalk: Please don't use Unicode to make fancy fonts in posts
posted by XMLicious at 8:32 AM on May 19, 2020
posted by XMLicious at 8:32 AM on May 19, 2020
Well, despite the fact that you don't want to use this for any public-facing stuff for accessibility reasons, I'm still finding this tool incredibly useful and have it bookmarked in my browser toolbar. I use it for adding comments to code that stand out, in cases where I'm only going to be editing the code myself.
posted by XMLicious at 11:54 AM on December 16, 2020
posted by XMLicious at 11:54 AM on December 16, 2020
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posted by jedicus at 8:52 AM on January 31, 2020