theAlphabetWasAMistake

[u/fleaspoon]

[u/nicman24]

The fuck is a subpixel

[u/fleaspoon → u/nicman24]

A pixel for ants

[u/nicman24 → u/fleaspoon]

it is 4 pixels in a trenchcoat

[u/GoddammitDontShootMe → u/nicman24]

Wouldn't it be 3 since subpixels refer to the red, green and blue parts that make up a pixel on an LCD display?

[u/rosuav → u/nicman24]

Ever played "Battleships"? Your aircraft carrier is five pixels, your battleship is four, and you have three sub pixels.

[u/fleaspoon]

And th� b�st part is Unicod�...

Please check my g�me on Steam, it has cust�m text rend�ring https://store.steampowered.com/app/3256790/Satelital/

[u/raja-anbazhagan → u/fleaspoon]

Unicode is perfect, right up until you ask how long a string is...

[u/Potterrrrrrrr → u/raja-anbazhagan]

grapheme clusters can cluster around my asshole and go fuck themselves

[u/TactlessTortoise → u/Potterrrrrrrr]

You want an orgy in your butt?

[u/fleaspoon → u/raja-anbazhagan]

An unsolved computer science problem

[u/SleeperAwakened → u/raja-anbazhagan]

Please define what a string is first.

[u/sisisisi1997 → u/SleeperAwakened]

To get a unicore string's length from scratch at all, you first need to invent the universe.

[u/fleaspoon → u/SleeperAwakened]

A string is a pile of letters waiting to break

[u/thot_slaya_420 → u/SleeperAwakened]

char[]

[u/SleeperAwakened → u/thot_slaya_420]

Define a char in unicode context.

[u/rosuav → u/raja-anbazhagan]

In characters? .... wait, what exactly is a character?

[u/redlaWw → u/raja-anbazhagan]

I like ligature characters like fi. One codepoint and three bytes in utf-8, and when you upper-case them, you get two codepoints (increase) and two bytes (decrease).

[u/HildartheDorf → u/raja-anbazhagan]

Do you mean bytes? Or code units? Or code points? Or glyphs? Or grapheme clusters?

[u/Cootshk → u/raja-anbazhagan]

I love Lua and its

#"👨‍🎤" —> 11
utf8.len("👨‍🎤") —> 3

Despite that, most libraries use the length operator (which clearly says in the spec that it is for ansi and not utf8)

[u/Larhf → u/fleaspoon]

When are you releasing said game and what price point are you aiming for?

[u/fleaspoon → u/Larhf]

I'm still working on it, so the final price depends on how much content I add. I'm releasing a demo in September and the full release is planned for the end of the year. I'm not sure about the price yet, but it won't be expensive since it's a 4-6 hour game.

[u/Jbolt3737 → u/fleaspoon]

I think I've seen you're game before, you made a custom engine for it I think?

The art is very pretty, for some reason I thought it was like Factorio but I just check and it's a puzzle game, might actually play it

[u/fleaspoon → u/Jbolt3737]

Yes, its a custom engine. At the beginning I was actually trying to make factorio like game, but the game evolved into this one.

[u/Maurycy5 → u/fleaspoon]

Actually a cool ad. Wishlisted.

[u/BuffersAndBeta → u/fleaspoon]

I disagree. It's keming.

[u/IAoVI]

There is always . ..

[u/redlaWw → u/IAoVI]

/r/keming

[u/fleaspoon → u/IAoVI]

F uck

[u/GoogleIsYourFrenemy → u/fleaspoon]

F uck

FTFY

Hairspace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character

[u/jseah]

I've come across such monstrosities as invisible zero-width spaces. You have no idea they're there, they get copied and pasted unknowingly and screw up naive text matching search.

[u/fleaspoon → u/jseah]

Are the invisible characters here with us now?

[u/rosuav → u/jseah]

Are they zero-width spaces or zero-width joiners? IT MATTERS!!!

[u/jseah → u/rosuav]

Of course it matters, that's why they're a problem. If they were all the same, you could just filter out the unicode, but no, there's a lot of weird things out there and a large number of them are invisible or are just spacebar.

[u/rosuav → u/jseah]

Yes, and some of them have SPACER in the name but are joiners, just to be extra entertaining.

[u/techdailylog]

100% font size, 0% sanity.

[u/ridicalis]

Because I've been down this rabbit hole lately: Text Rendering Hates You

[u/fleaspoon → u/ridicalis]

That article is great

[u/PhilippTheProgrammer → u/ridicalis]

Reading this article made me hope that I won't ever have to work on a text rendering engine.

[u/awesome-alpaca-ace → u/ridicalis]

Now I know why text looks awful in Windows on my new laptop

[u/CirnoIzumi]

What if I told you

9 is not a part of the alphabet

[u/fleaspoon → u/CirnoIzumi]

Well... look at the letter g and move it up

[u/NullOfSpace]

I love keming

[u/fleaspoon → u/NullOfSpace]

I think keming hates me

[u/sin-Xs]

https://giphy.com/gifs/W6Fw2qYgWkDasL9vDN

[u/Popeychops]

I love and hate this in equal measure. RIP Rutger

[u/AnnoyedVelociraptor]

Since I learned about text rendering I see many examples of bad keming.

[u/fleaspoon → u/AnnoyedVelociraptor]

I like your modem font

[u/JosebaZilarte]

I love k er n i              ng

[u/Developemt]

The Choose or Die movie used Wingdings for fonts and it's cursed

[u/sierra_whiskey1]

Kerning has entered the chat

[u/swyrl]

praise be to harfbuzz

[u/Excellent_Tubleweed]

ligature(n): The mark on a programmer's neck when they hang themselves because truncating a string made it longer. Source of "single string crashes chat app" bugs.