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computator ◴[14 Mar 25 05:05 UTC] No.43359743[source]▶
Just wanted to point out something that not everyone might realize:

Unicode is not supposed to have fonts at all. Unicode defines characters that you can then represent in various fonts. It just so happens that Unicode has many characters that happen to look like the letter "C" (as an example): © for copyright, ℂ for complex numbers (formally called Double-Struck Capital C), etc. The author uses these many variations as a fun way to make "fonts".

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japanuspus ◴[14 Mar 25 07:02 UTC] No.43360250[source]▶
If you want to dive into the details, you can copy the "fonted" output to a unicode analyzer. [0] is an online unicode analyzer that seems to work well.

[0]: https://devina.io/unicode-analyser

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1. antonhag ◴[14 Mar 25 07:35 UTC] No.43360381[source]▶
I often reach for jq to understand what unicode is in a string, e.g.:

  [wl-paste|xclip-o|pbpaste] | jq -R --ascii-output
It doesn't provide any per-character explanation, but it is local and I already have jq installed.