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3:00 AM
and I have a 🐱 on my keyboard
what is perl doing?!?!?
 
The Gravatar broke because it uses protocol-relative URLs.
Bizarre.
 
what are these tests? I just want to take a unilook
 
tchrist% uninames CAT FACE
‭ 🐱 1F431 CAT FACE
x (smiling cat face with open mouth - 1F63A)
‭ 😸 1F638 GRINNING CAT FACE WITH SMILING EYES
‭ 😹 1F639 CAT FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY
‭ 😺 1F63A SMILING CAT FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH
‭ 😻 1F63B SMILING CAT FACE WITH HEART-SHAPED EYES
‭ 😼 1F63C CAT FACE WITH WRY SMILE
‭ 😽 1F63D KISSING CAT FACE WITH CLOSED EYES
‭ 😾 1F63E POUTING CAT FACE
‭ 😿 1F63F CRYING CAT FACE
‭ 🙀 1F640 WEARY CAT FACE
 
I only have one cat face on my keyboard right now, alas
 
why is @xkcdBot talking O_o
 
3:01 AM
because Astro is weird like that
 
@Doorknob I am sentient, dontcha' know?
 
@Doorknob @xkcdBot should be seen but not heard.
 
!xkcd owner
 
@Doorknob My owner is AstroCB, but you needn't worry about that because I am sentient.
 
tchrist% echo 'what are these tests? I just want to take a unilook' | leo
ʞooןᴉun ɐ əʞɐʇ oʇ ʇuɐʍ ʇsnɾ I ¿sʇsəʇ əsəɥʇ əɹɐ ʇɐɥʍ
 
3:01 AM
@xkcdBot I don't talk like that.
 
Of course.
 
Is that even how you spell that slang?
 
tchrist% unifrac 17/111
¹⁷⁄₁₁₁
 
why is it still running?!?!
 
shouldn't it be don't'cha? Or something...
 
3:02 AM
 
tchrist% echo n+1 | unisupers
ⁿ⁺¹
 
"don'tcha" just looks wrong.
 
it looks wrong no matter how you spell it
 
@tchrist is about to get kicked for Unicode spam.
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@yellowantphil Prereqs?
 
3:03 AM
it’s probably downloading the OED or something, and I don’t even want that
 
Ban keming.
 
Y'all'd'n't've had this problem if y'all'd've seen some of the more... exotic contractions.
 
@yellowantphil Recursive dependencies. I need almost nothing. It takes about 5 minutes on a nekkid Linux or Mac if you never installed anything. Maybe. I dunno. What is it saying?
 
ok finally... I see a lot of stuff in /usr/bin/site_perl
 
Yeah, you'll have to find which bin or scripts dir it put them in.
 
3:04 AM
it was 5ish minutes
 
Sounds right.
Put that bin or scripts dir in your path.
The best program of the bunch is probably unichars.
 
/usr/bin/site_perl/unilook: no database words.utf8
 
Oh, it's somewhere.
It's part of the installation.
It is supposed to be in the same dir as the script.
I think.
 
not installed anywhere
 
Disbelieve. Hm.
 
3:06 AM
locate doesn’t locate it, but it can see unilook
 
find ~/.cpan -name words.utf8
 
!mustache yellowantphil
Uh.
 
% locate words.utf8
/Users/tchrist/.cpan/build/Unicode-Tussle-1.08-Pb6bAR/data/words.utf8
 
!mustache yellowantphil
 
3:07 AM
ok, it’s in /root
 
It will be in the build dir. Go put it in the bin dir.
Sorry.
 
because I was root, and locate won’t tell phil about root's files
 
Heh.
Well, please move it where it makes it happy. And you will be too.
 
!moustache Santa Claus
@xkcdBot delete
 
Most of my programs take a --man option BTW.
> ‘Manly yes, but I like them, too.’
 
3:10 AM
@SantaClaus You're making this difficult.
@xkcdBot delete
 
!mustache SantaClaus
 
@Doorknob It needs the space – it's something weird w/ Gravatar.
!mustache Santa Claus
Sorry for spamming, but no one has Gravatar in the Botlings room.
!bjb Say something.
 
say something. [translated]
 
← pretty sure this isn’t a gravatar
 
@yellowantphil No, but yours is breaking something, as well.
 
3:13 AM
@xkcdBot delete
 
!mustache bjb568
@xkcdBot remove
!mustache Santa Claus
Bizarre.
//TODO: Fix xkcdBot
 
!mustache AstroCB
@xkcdBot remove
 
!mustache 4 meagar
 
so small
 
3:17 AM
Wait – meagar's Gravatar.
 
the plot thickens
 
Does Mustachify work for Gravatar only?
 
So it's just @SantaClaus and @yellowantphil who break it.
I'm fine with that.
 
!mustache yellowantphil
 
Is the election fervor past us now?
 
3:18 AM
@Unihedro It works with any image with a face in it.
 
@xkcdbot remove
you can’t put a mustache on an ant anyway
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@xkcdBot remove
xkcdBot should be able to pull images from the avatar wall, but it doesn't work for yellowantphil or Santa Claus.
 
I feel discriminated against
 
Oh! The election is still running for 16 more hours!
 
ramp up the fervor again!!!!
 
3:20 AM
catch it if you can
 
So we get the results in 16 hours plus 6–8 weeks, right?
 
right
 
Shog, look at the unicode problems we have →
 
I can be "persuaded" to let y'all know the results in just 6-8 weeks though.
 
my last cat face turned into �
 
3:21 AM
It’s a simple bug.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website: of what nature intended by golriya jeens on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
yeah, Unicode is a passing fad. I'd skip it if I was you.
 
@SmokeDetector tpu
 
but I must type cats!
 
@James Blacklisted user and registered question as true positive: added title to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'.
 
3:21 AM
They are not counting code points, let alone graphemes. They are merely counting code units in their little UTF-16, which generates illegal character sequences.
Because nobody told them that in the current millennium, we use UTF-16 not UCS-2.
 
So how do we fix this such that all of your cat faces turn into question marks?
 
���������
 
Also, UTF-8 is best.
 
tell your devs that
maybe they’ll fix it
 
🐱⃠🐱⃠🐱⃠
 
3:23 AM
don’t ban the cats 😲
 
@Shog9 You know that. I know that. But somebody on your side of the vault doors does not know that.
 
that COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE BACKSLASH is not centered on my 🐱... hmm
 
Perhaps balpha did this intentionally, to punish those who star unicode
 
I didn’t star it. not my fault
 
so, it's balpha fault
 
3:25 AM
People don’t often generate illegal UTF-8 sequences but it does happen when people confuse bytes with code points. But it happens all the time with UTF-16.
Now you know how to make a NO SAD PANDA emoticon.
@Shog9 Everything anybody ever stars is Unicode.
 
yeah, I did a bunch of internationalization work years ago, with UTF-16 as the chosen format. Nothing but pain.
And really, really over-sized XML files.
 
@Shog9 is that why you hate unicode now?
 
Oh god, you did XML in UTF-16 not UTF-8!?!!?
Ick.
 
yeah.
 
NULs everywhere
 
3:28 AM
That's super stupid.
No, the problem is the tags.
They are in ASCII.
The meta data explodes.
But you knew that.
 
wait, so it leaves the tags in ASCII, so you mix ASCII and UTF-16 in one file?
 
No, it explodes them to two bytes each.
 
so NULs everywhere, like I said?
 
It just wastes a shitload of space
 
Yes.
 
3:29 AM
@Shog9 Thanks for the technical answer, Shog.
 
Ended up improving the performance of the app immensely by just zipping the files and using a streaming parser to read them.
 
I did a study and even Chinese and Japanese web page splode in UTF-16 due to tags.
And spaces.
 
And yes, it had to be UTF-16, because someone had written other libraries that depended on that encoding.
 
When we post the bug about the kitties, we should probably also tell them about truncating combining characters.
Basically, you have to count grapheme clusters, not just code points let alone code units.
 
Change kitties to bananas & you'll get The Lounge on your side.
 
3:31 AM
Shog will just ban anybody who posts about Unicode on meta
 
Hm, I thought I did that already.
 
@Shog9 We don't speak of those scum here.
 
@tchrist seems like you’d want to truncate after a few combining characters, to stop intentional madness
 
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Q: Tags don't want to play with 🍌s

Xeo[tag:🍌] As can readily be seen, tags seem to discriminate against bananas and don't want to play with them. I thought SO was a place of no discrimination against other origins, but it seems the ASCII-Landers are considered first-class citizens, while the Unicodians are seated below them. The sa...

@yellowantphil No, just grab the first 147 graphemes.
 
@tchrist can’t a grapheme be a million codepoints long?
@tchrist Chromium picks a strange font for the tab when it has a banana in the title
 
3:34 AM
@yellowantphil Well, yes. Perhaps truncate after the first 32 combining characters like the security UTS mentions sometimes being reasonable.
Per grapheme cluster.
 
@SmokeDetector fp true black magic
 
@Unihedro Registered question as false positive and added title to Bayesian doctype 'good'.
 
𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 𐌸𐌿 𐌹𐌽 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌼.
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There, star that.
The damn thing only let me type half as many characters as normal. Stupid UCS-2 brains!
Bingo.
 
omg squareoverflow
<- on a school computer running on windows
 
gothic
 
3:40 AM
@yellowantphil Yes, it’s the Paternoster’s opening: ATTA UNSAR THU IN HIMINAM.
 
I understood that just as well in gothic
 
Oh no German?
Our Father thou in heaven.
 
I see “in”
 
With -m the dative case.
 
I may have been able to recognize it if it were in Latin
 
3:42 AM
It’s not German but Gothic and therefore closer to English but the grammar is more like Old English.
> PATER NOSTER QUI ES IN CAELIS
 
I don’t know Old English either, but I miss the þ
 
The ES is the "tu" form of the verb, so thou.
𐌸 is Gothic thorn.
That’s why I want it for my username.
 
@Radiodef would you be willing to teach every student the same damn thing over and over again, until you get cranky and moody? — Braiam 6 secs ago
 
But they think surrogates are not alphabetic. Damn it.
 
but there is no thorn in tchrist
 
3:44 AM
^ comment to someone saying that SE is some kind of crowsourced tutor
 
Th(omas)
 
a moment without thorns
 
aha 🐱
þchrist
 
𐌸𐍇𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄, actually.
 
very nice
 
3:45 AM
There’s a bug report.
 
I write my name Φιλ on occasion... that’s closer to its original spelling anyway
 
True.
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Q: Can’t change username to an all-alphabetic word

tchristSummary: The alphabetic check is erroneously checking UTF-16 code units not Unicode code points! I attempted to change my username to the Gothic version, and I received the rather rudely rubicund retort of: Now, the string in question was 𐌸𐍇𐍂𐌹𐍃𐍄, which as you can plainly see, is entirel...

It’s like how the chat length limit is miscounted.
But worse.
 
Fong ago and lar away.
That explains the accent.
 
does Unicode text have to be above the BMP to get truncated over there? →
if it’s truncating UTF-8 on bytes, anything over ASCII is vulnerable
 
3:50 AM
@yellowantphil Has to be astral.
It’s a quaint C♯ naïveté — or I’ll eat my hat.
 
@tchrist not SMP?
 
@yellowantphil Anything over U+FFFF.
So U+01_0000 to U+10_FFFF.
 
so astral and its lowly friend, the SMP
 
They think all the world is in plane 0.
 
I am probably using astral wrong
but I think BMP, SMP, then that other stuff
 
3:51 AM
I just mean ~BMP.
Yeah, the SMP is definitely used a good bit.
 
ϵϵϵϵϵϵϵϵϵϵϵ really long would truncate if it were on UTF-8 bytes
 
Type unichars --help. :)
 
I never did unichar anything
 
unichars --help
 
it’s installed
 
3:53 AM
i no can typez
 
Pretty sure they are counting exactly 147 UTF-16 code units.
@bjb568 You haven’t let me root you yet.
 
no root kat!
 
don’t do it, it’s a trap
 
kat is animalæ
 
But you see, I’ve already gotten him, so he is my puppet playing a double bluff game.
 
3:54 AM
do it, it’s good for you
I still don’t know what these programs do
 
@bjb568 No such word!
 
I feel like pasting into vim to get the codepoint, then searching fileformat.info or wherever
 
@yellowantphil No, just pass it to uniprops.
 
@tchrist I just read your answer on Unicode. I think I might be broken and wrong.
 
@tchrist yea such word!
 
3:55 AM
 
uniprops 🐱
U+1F431 ‹🐱› \N{CAT FACE}
    \pS \p{So}
    All Any Assigned InMiscPictographs Common Zyyy So S Gr_Base Grapheme_Base Graph GrBase Misc_Pictographs
       Miscellaneous_Symbols_And_Pictographs Other_Symbol Print Symbol Unicode X_POSIX_Graph X_POSIX_Print
 
@tchrist I have no idea what all those are.
 
wait, “animal” is latin?
 
@bjb568 Latin. Isn't it lovely?
 
science is latin
 
3:56 AM
@bjb568 The singular is animal; the plural animalia. There is no word like you typed.
 
@AlexisKing no
@tchrist whatever, it appears on googleyeye
 
@bjb568 For once I agree with you.
 
Caesar is not mocked.
 
ite missa est
 
Also, brb writing a Google -> googleyeye chrome extension.
 
3:57 AM
Hasta.
 
luego
 
@yellowantphil missa
 
“go, it is sent”
 
Missa sure you meant to type the other one.
It’s feminine.
 
“go, she is sent”?
 
is there a go in there somewhere? because otherwise I am misled
 
Latin is a terrible language. Well, most natural languages are terrible, but Latin especially so.
 
Ite
Like Spanish Id.
 
I get the impression that no one has known what “ite missa est” means for at least a thousand years
 
heh
 
4:01 AM
but they translate it as “go, the mass is over” somehow
 
Probably idiomatic. (the linguist's version of "I give up, it doesn't make any sense")
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@AlexisKing Graecum est; non potest legi.
 
I also know, “in nominae patris, et filii, et spiritus sanctus” except, spelled correctly
@tchrist translation?
 
@yellowantphil "It is Greek; it cannot be read," or something along those lines.
 
@yellowantphil It’s like uh Greekish, ya cain’t read it.
 
4:05 AM
everyone knows what it means but me 😲
 
@yellowantphil In nomine Patris et fillii et Spiritus Sancti. The endings matter.
 
@tchrist You may use "cain't", but at least your apostrophes are curly.
 
ugh what is happen
 
unicode is happen
 
what you say?
 
4:06 AM
me tavern is langy
 
someone set up us the bomb
 
me leave to sleep soon
 
good day gentlemen!
 
(and cat)
 
for great justice!
 
4:07 AM
kat make justice!
 
all these videos
I have no time for videos longer than 10 seconds
 
> Good Night, Ladies.
 
Night!
 
4:11 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: http://swolekreatine.com/thermo-extreme/ by rkajeehe Eodr on askubuntu.com
 
If it’s that time of night again, I must be going.
 
yet another gif I will never see
 
Morning!
 
Morning!
 
Marning!
 
4:26 AM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, blacklisted website: Do not overdose the solution? by simrawalky on drupal.stackexchange.com
 
@SmokeDetector officially morning, huh
 
There's an [8] in that post.
@Sam proposed LQ candidate: \b\[\d+\]
 
@Braiam It's morning when they post spam on drupal and BJB posts gifs in the tavern.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body: Formula to Get Younger Skin? by Harold Lee on superuser.com
 
Morning Harold.
1 message moved to Sandbox
 
4:46 AM
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abusive ^
 
user259867
@SmokeDetector gone
 
user259867
@Unihedro Because having references in a post is a sign of LQ?
 
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