Show HN: unicode.style

By ekmartin - 3 days ago

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Screen readers don’t do very well with this, so please only use it for novelty purposes. Otherwise you will unnecessarily be locking people out from what you write.

JimDabell - 3 days ago

I'm having trouble understanding what this does. Apparently there's a popover when you select the text you typed. I had to go to https://github.com/ekmartin/unicode-style to figure this out.

alpb - 3 days ago

I have been using https://yaytext.com for quite a while. Only for novelty purposes, of course.

braythwayt - 3 days ago

Underlines a̲r̲̲̲e̲̲̲̲̲̲̲ ̲̲̲̲̲̲̲a̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲ ̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲l̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲̲ittle nesty when re-selecting already underlined characters from the left

mejari - 3 days ago

This seems like a major source of security issues. How can i protect myself from it?

Am i supposed to normalize ALL untrusted user input or will that break normal text in some language i'm not familiar with? Or only normalize things that are supposed to be unique, like urls, usernames and other identifiers?

Too - 2 days ago

I would make it more clear what the app does and that you should highlight text to format it.

I discovered that by accident.

kowdermeister - 3 days ago

On iOS, the selection popover interferes with the one you designed.

tambourine_man - 3 days ago

Doesn't work with accented latin alphabet characters ("ü𝕓𝕖𝕣") - is it a fundamental restriction of the styled unicode charset or a mapping issue? Seems like it should be supported but would need a transition from precomposed characters to the equivalent combination of letter + diacritic.

PeterisP - 3 days ago

What about "strikethrough" and "slashthrough"?[0,1,2]

P.S.: It's look like you reinvent YayText[3] website ;-)

[0] http://adamvarga.com/strike/

[1] https://yaytext.com/strike/

[2] https://yaytext.com/slash/

[3] https://yaytext.com/

app4soft - 2 days ago

https://github.com/ekmartin/unicode-style/blob/master/src/tr...

I learned something new today, thanks!

waynenilsen - 3 days ago