Unicode

Unicode is a crazy thing...

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The tough guy's ASCII. I loved the idea since the start, although it has always been clear to me that it would be a broken system, full of frustrations.

It actually works better than you would think. And then you can have fun putting some 👩 or ⛑ or ♛ ♘ ⛔ ☭ ☠ 🍹 ⚕ � etc, etc. in what one likes the most of a computer: plain text.

To enter a Unicode character of which you knows the code, in Linux, got ctrl+shift+U and the code itself.

E.g., ctrl+shift+U+0239 gives you... ȹ.

Useful entries to remember:

• Greek goes from 3B1 (α) to 3C9 (ω) so you can try to guess, the most popular being:
  • 3B2 β (easy)
  • 3B3 γ (easy)
  • 3B4 δ (still easy)
  • 3B5 ε (still easy)
  • 3B7 θ
  • 3BC μ
  • 3C0 π
  • 3F0 ϰ
  • 3C8 ψ
• M-dash: 2014 —
• Left arrow: 2192 →
  • There are lot more: 🡢 ⟶ 🡒 🠂 🡒 🡺 (see Xah Lee for a list).