New video about my browser for FoC archives (5 min...
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Kartik Agaram
08/16/2021, 6:20 AM
New video about my browser for FoC archives (5 minutes): https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-08-15
You can try it out by downloading two files (and installing Qemu):
• http://akkartik.name/mu/foc-data-20210814.img.gz
• http://akkartik.name/mu/mu-browser-20210815.img.gz
Then:
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gunzip foc-data-20210814.img.gz
gunzip mu-browser-20210815.img.gz
qemu-system-i386 -m 2G -hda mu-browser-20210815.img -hdb foc-data-20210814.img🍰 3
Kartik Agaram
08/31/2021, 4:15 AM
The Mu computer's FoC archive browser now renders most Unicode. See the before/after images below.
I'm loading 140KB of Unicode glyphs from its system font. Unicode blocks now supported: latin, greek, cyrillic, armenian, hebrew, arabic, syriac, thaana, n'ko, indian (ISCII), sinhala, thai, lao, tibetan, myanmar, georgian (< U+1100)
While this is useful in a mostly-English corpus, there are caveats for more intensive use cases:
• No support for combining characters yet. This makes support for the other languages I know (Hindi and Tamil, which use _matras_) well-nigh useless.
• GNU Unifont's glyphs for the non-Latin languages I know turn out to be quite spectacularly ugly.
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Konrad Hinsen
08/31/2021, 6:00 AMIf my name comes up in a search for Einstein, there’s something wrong with your software ;-)
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Ivan Reese
08/31/2021, 4:20 PM
"Schr00f6dinger" is his Xbox Live gamertag
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Kartik Agaram
09/01/2021, 9:52 PM
Support for combining characters that plumbs new depths of mediocrity: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106858559854384210 (see the alt text on the image attachment)
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