Comments on: In case your system's fonts don't support the snowman.

In case your system's fonts don't support the snowman.

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:15:23 -0800

Decodeunicode.org has a useful and full-featured search for the names and glyphs for those Unicode characters that display as a plain box full of despair. It is presented by the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. Roll the dice ⚅⚄ and try it out.

I hear if you know the secret hexadecimal number you can find an Obama glyph. Comment with the funniest candidate wins the internet.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:33:20 -0800

It's no img tag, but these days I'll take what I can get.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:36:36 -0800

idiot

By: troy

troy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:50:45 -0800

〠 was a proprietary symbol for the Japanese Post -- but they stopped using it in the late 90s so now it's a dead codepoint. � is the Aegean digit for 90,000. These people musta worked with some big numbers. ⠠⠊⠠⠋ ⠠⠽⠠⠕⠠⠥ ⠠⠉⠠⠁⠠⠝ ⠠⠗⠠⠑⠠⠁⠠⠙ ⠠⠞⠠⠓⠠⠊⠠⠎ ⠠⠺⠠⠞⠠⠋

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:52:12 -0800

Ok, a lot of these symbols are not working for me. Instead I get blocks with the unicode numbers in them. HOW DO I FIX THIS.

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:02:42 -0800

98,884 glyphs and no middle finger. Fuck that bullshit, man!

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:07:07 -0800

__|__ (really, it's not that hard to give someone the finger on the net)

By: gman

gman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:10:57 -0800

It's really not that hard. LOUD.

By: amuseDetachment

amuseDetachment — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:18:02 -0800

98,884 glyphs and no middle finger. Fuck that bullshit, man! Unicode is peaceful. ✌

By: wanderingmind

wanderingmind — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:23:20 -0800

Gotta be the Yi syllable "mit".

By: Hovercraft Eel

Hovercraft Eel — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:28:57 -0800

✈ ❙ ❙

By: simoncion

simoncion — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:33:43 -0800

> HOW DO I FIX THIS. Install and use a font that supports more Unicode characters than your current one. There aren't very many (if any) that support all characters.

By: StrangeTikiGod

StrangeTikiGod — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:41:58 -0800

I've always been partial to the interrobang... ‽ Unusual and now practically useless, much like myself...

By: Creosote

Creosote — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:55:00 -0800

I need someone to design a Unicode search that works when you know what a glyph looks like but have no idea what on earth it is named. For example, some months ago I was encoding a text that used the ※ character, aka "an X with a dot near each of the vertices". Searching for "X with a dot near each of the vertices" brought little joy. Eventually brute-force scanning of the code charts located Unicode "Reference Mark", U+203B.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:11:46 -0800

Install and use a font that supports more Unicode characters than your current one. There aren't very many (if any) that support all characters. Suggestions? (What font are you using that displays this stuff?) Do I have to fiddle with settings and stuff, or just install & use?

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:24:56 -0800

Did I break the search?

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:29:16 -0800

Unicode fonts

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:35:08 -0800

I had no idea there were so many Cuneiforms.

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:45:37 -0800

Letters are pretty!

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:18:03 -0800

∧＿∧ (^ヮ^) Let's have vanilla tea and chat! ( つ旦O　∫　∫　∫　∫　∫　∫　∫ と＿)＿)　旦　旦　旦　旦　旦

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:25:25 -0800

CODE2000 and CODE2001 are my Unicode backstop fonts. Kinda chunky, but nearly complete. Of course you can also find a glyph for any given code point at unicode.org.

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:26:20 -0800

D'oh! On further link-clicking, what EMRJKC94 said.

By: zouhair

zouhair — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:24:01 -0800

There is also the Unicode Character Search.

By: joeclark

joeclark — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:41:41 -0800

You can look up characters easily at FileFormat.info and via Richard Ishida's Uniview. (Ishida has all sorts of utilities.) Looking up and entering Unicode characters (beyond what's visible on your keyboard or what you might know how to type on e.g. a Macintosh) is a cottage industry unto itself. Jukka Korpela's book Unicode Explained is very highly recommended (my review). You can take it out to the coffee shop and just sit there and read it it's that good.

By: dreamyshade

dreamyshade — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:40:29 -0800

Creosote: I paste those mystery characters into the Unicode Sliderule and select "Unicode character details".

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:41:57 -0800

Great post!