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Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437? - GlyphDrawing.Club -blog

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:07:32 +0000

There's a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM's infamous character set Code Page 437. "Small house"—that's the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for "Delete" (DEL) should logically exist. It's cute, but a little strange. I wonder, how did it get there? Why did IBM represent DEL as a house, of all things?

Tags: #ascii #fonts #history #retro #unicode

How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets - The New York Times

Sun, 22 Oct 2017 23:48:10 +0000

Do the volunteers behind Unicode, whose mission is to bring all human languages into the digital sphere, have enough bandwidth to deal with emojis too?

Tags: #emoji #imported:pinboard #unicode

Unicons - Readme

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:55:11 +0000

"For times when you can't insert images into your posts, you can insert Unicons! Use this on Twitter, TypePad, Tumblr... pretty much any text field on the web that accepts unicode characters. "

Tags: #bookmarklets #javascript #nifty #textareas #unicode

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Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:08:58 +0000

Tags: #characters #clipboard #cutandpaste #unicode #webdev

On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer // plasmasturm.org

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:03:50 +0000

"Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."

Tags: #arc #ascii #dirty #paulgraham #unicode