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
@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?
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.
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.
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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...
Summary: 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...
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
Summary: 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...
