Yesterday I wrote about cjhebrew, a LaTeX package that lets you insert Hebrew text by using a sort of transliteration…
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How UTF-8 works
UTF-8 is a clever way of encoding Unicode text. I’ve mentioned it a couple times lately, but I haven’t blogged…
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My previous post quoted Randall Munroe saying Unicode “started out just trying to unify a couple different character sets” and…
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Randall Monroe, author of xkcd, discussing Unicode on the Triangulation podcast:I am endlessly delighted by the hopeless task that the…
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Creating New Scripts with StyleGANRobert MunroBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingJun 16I applied StyleGAN to images of Unicode characters to see if it could invent new…
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At first I only noticed the trademark symbol, and I fixed it by including a LaTeX package to allow Unicode…
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