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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Art & Literature → Is this something that is unexpected art?
In the post
https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unic … 10871.html
Ken Whistler wrote as follows.
> As an example, I would be perfectly within my rights to try to convey
today's date, April 26, 2024 with the following Unicode string:
> òóòòòòòòò òòòòòòòòò òóòòòòòòò òòòóòòòòò òòòòòòòòò òòòóòòòòò òòóòòòòòò
òòòòòóòòò
Upon investigating exactly what he posted, I found it quite interesting.
William
Setting aside the fact that Ken Whistler’s suggested Unicode string looks as though it represents “April 36, 2024”, I don’t think it’s art at all (unexpected or not).
I had copied to WordPad and enlarged it so as to try to decode it and as it happened it produced a block of 8 rows and 9 columns.
I thought it rather good that he used 9 column an expressed zero by no accented character.
Did you look at the earlier example in the same post?
Blocks of salt?
William
I thought it rather good that he used 9 column an expressed zero by no accented character.
Oh, but there are accented characters there: it’s just that there aren’t any acute accents in the sequence! I think you’ve made a grave mistake.
Did you look at the earlier example in the same post?
Blocks of salt?
I thought of sugar cubes.
The reference to the blocks of salt is because if one looks at those characters in ViewHex.exe then one can find that they are U+25A1
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf
The description of the symbol includes a reference to salt.
ViewHex.exe can be found in the thread linked from the following post.
https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unic … 10873.html
William
The whole thread is available from the following web page.
https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unic … /date.html
Posts in the the thread have the following subject line.
Use of tag characters in a private encoding - is it valid please?
Six posts as at the time of writing this post.
William
The reference to the blocks of salt is because if one looks at those characters in ViewHex.exe then one can find that they are U+25A1
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf
The description of the symbol includes a reference to salt.
Thanks for the explanation and the link.
ViewHex.exe can be found in the thread linked from the following post.
Thanks for the reference, no thanks for the very indirect link!
ViewHex.zip can be found at https://forum.high-logic.com/download/file.php?id=189
Well, the indirect link is to show the context.
William
Well, the indirect link is to show the context.
William
In that case, why not say something like the following?
The validity of the use of tag characters in a private encoding is discussed at
https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unic … 10873.html
A zip archive of the ViewHex.exe program mentioned on that page can be downloaded from
Since you ask, because by looking at the post that contains the download link for ViewHex.zip one can learn more about it.
William
by looking at the post that contains the download link for ViewHex.zip one can learn more about it
Your post to the Unicode mailing list links directly to Erwin’s explanatory post to the High-Logic Font Forums.
Displaying Ken's string using the Webdings font is interesting.
William
Displaying Ken's string using the Webdings font is interesting.
But you can't be bothered to show us?
ó on the left, ò on the right:
Displaying Ken's string using the Webdings font is interesting.
But you can't be bothered to show us?
Not a matter of can't be bothered at all, I wrote that thinking that some readers might enjoy the experience of observing the effect of formatting all of the eight blocks each of nine characters using the Webdings font.
I found it quite fascinating that a hint of the grave accent and of the acute accent remain.
William
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