This is driving me insane. Please help!

  • qualia@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Useless info: The backtick (`), forward tick (´), and apostrophe (') are distinct characters.

      • Lehmuusa@nord.pub
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        21 hours ago

        We are in a community called “no stupid questions”. Your “fuck you for giving someone useful information” is not in the right place in this community. Please copypaste your comment to something under .ml and then remove it from here. Thanks!

        • BillyClark@piefed.social
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          21 hours ago

          Either you’re making some sort of joke that escapes me or you completely misunderstood my comment.

          • qualia@lemmy.world
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            1 hour ago

            Social media can be so contentious that people carry the average valence to unassuming comments. In general I try to just block aggressive people to mitigate that effect overall.

            Salient Proof: Distinct is the opposite of average, average is mean, therefore distinct is nice.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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      13 hours ago

      T́h́é fóŕẃáŕd́ t́íćḱ íś áćt́úáĺĺý ćáĺĺéd́ áćút́é àǹd̀ t̀h̀è b̀àc̀k̀t̀ìc̀k̀ ìs̀ à g̀r̀àv̀è

      You can have some fun with these terms.

      Also, there are Czech and Slovak oddities with carons where it looks very much like a 9-shaped curly apostrophe (’) on some letters. All the following nouns are common, spelled correctly and the only accent they contain is one caron each. Standard and monospace font are provided for comparison (some monospace fonts, especially pixel ones, actually squish the d-caron to avoid overflow)

      1 2 3 4
      ľudia loď lodě mať
      people ship ships mother
      1 2 3 4
      ĽUDIA LOĎ LODĚ MAŤ
      PEOPLE SHIP SHIPS MOTHER
      ľudia   loď   lodě   mať
      people  ship  ships  mother
      
      ĽUDIA   LOĎ   LODĚ   MAŤ
      PEOPLE  SHIP  SHIPS  MOTHER
      

      Maybe that’s why Czech and Slovak never use upper-9 quotes, the primary („“) and secondary (‚‘) quote marks are lower-9 and upper-6.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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          13 hours ago

          It’s Zalgo (putting combining diacritics on every letter) but mild and consistent, plus I used native accented characters if available to improve rendering consistency

          àèìǹòùẁỳ
          áćéǵíj́ḱĺḿńóṕŕśúẃýź
          

          You can test if your text renderer adds combining diacritics as overlays or replaces with native glyphs:

          1. ď (d-caron)
          2. ď (d plus combining caron)
          3. ԁ̌ (Cyrillic ԁ aka “komi de” or “lowercase Ԁ” plus combining caron)

          Most renderers will use identical glyphs for #1 and #2 because #3 (using a d-lookalike (hompglyph) to simulate how cheap Czech typewriter users would print lowercase d-caron) is not how d-caron looks in print (the closest ASCII-safe rendition of that, if you still have encoding problems, is d’)

          • Akagigahara@lemmy.world
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            19 hours ago

            That’s some very clean Zalgo. I am mainly familiar with this version H̵̛͕̞̦̰̜͍̰̥̟͆̏͂̌͑ͅä̷͔̟͓̬̯̟͍̭͉͈̮͙̣̯̬͚̞̭̍̀̾͠m̴̡̧̛̝̯̹̗̹̤̲̺̟̥̈̏͊̔̑̍͆̌̀̚͝͝b̴̢̢̫̝̠̗̼̬̻̮̺̭͔̘͑̆̎̚ư̵̧̡̥̙̭̿̈̀̒̐̊͒͑r̷̡̡̲̼̖͎̫̮̜͇̬͌͘g̷̹͍͎̬͕͓͕̐̃̈́̓̆̚͝ẻ̵̡̼̬̥̹͇̭͔̯̉͛̈́̕r̸̮̖̻̮̣̗͚͖̝̂͌̾̓̀̿̔̀͋̈́͌̈́̋͜ which looks… quite messy xD

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      23 hours ago

      I don’t have the energy to set one up, or to moderate one, but there should be a community called “GeneralInterestClub” or similar, where interesting but not really super useful info like this would be reposted.