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RIP Andre Hedrick (Register)RIP Andre Hedrick (Register)Posted Jul 26, 2012 16:19 UTC (Thu) by cuboci (subscriber, #9641)In reply to: RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) by pharm Parent article: RIP Andre Hedrick (Register)
Funny thing is, although it's annoying you can read it almost without effort after a few words.
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RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 26, 2012 17:09 UTC (Thu) by thumperward (guest, #34368) [Link]
That was probably one of the number of points that the author was attempting to make, along with apparently wishing to make clear that he doesn't think Oracle and Microsoft employees are people. But then LWN is the new Slashdot, so it will attract trolls looking for attention by posting inflammatory comments on an obituary.
Rest in peace, Andre Hendrick.
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 27, 2012 7:12 UTC (Fri) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]
I can't, even with effort. I suppose I would need to research some translation for those characters. I see the long s here, but the other ones are just foreign to me.
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 27, 2012 9:17 UTC (Fri) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]
ð Is Eth ( actually , a version of d, edd in old scandic languages )
ƿ is Wynn, version of W ſ is a long S, as you mentioned ȝ is Yogh, Mix between y and j in sound.
He's not typing it naturally, it's just a regexp to annoy people.
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 27, 2012 10:39 UTC (Fri) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]
You omitted one:
ŋ is Eng, which is pronounced like ng
I assumed it was done to raise awareness of unicode amongst people who are normally content with latin1, not just to be annoying.
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 27, 2012 21:35 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]
Yes, I love Unicode & paleotypography.
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 27, 2012 21:34 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]
I am typiŋ naturally. Ðe beauty of X11’s xkb, noƿ in ðe conſole too.
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 27, 2012 22:01 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
However, what you are typing is not English, and you are communicating on an English language site.
posting things in a different language than everything else on a site is annoying and rude.
On a more practical matter, it distracts people from what you are trying to say by making it hard for them to read it.
IT'S WORSE THAN IF YOU WERE TYPING IN ALL CAPS ;-), and we all know how annoying posters who do that can be.
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 28, 2012 10:47 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] I'll agree, it's annoying, but I must disagree with your claim thatHowever, what you are typing is not EnglishIt is English. It is English as it might have been printed had the people who first took up Gutenberg's new device possessed typefaces that contained all the characters then used in the written language. They didn't, so we dropped some of them. (At least we dropped thorn and yogh, though ash, eth and wynn were dropping out of use anyway. A shame, they're lovely characters. All fonts should have them, even if nobody ever uses them for anything.)
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 28, 2012 12:09 UTC (Sat) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] Well, if he insists on using the 13th century English alphabet, he should by rights also be using 13th century English grammar and vocabulary. What we're seeing here is like having the King James Bible printed in Comic Sans.
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Jul 27, 2012 22:03 UTC (Fri) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] Now I'm interested. How is it done? How do you distinguish thorn from eth?
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Sep 18, 2012 14:00 UTC (Tue) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]
I have in my Debian Wheezy /etc/default/keyboard file:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
Actually apl has recently broken, ſo I am lookiŋ for hoƿ to fix it.
XKBLAYOUT="us… combined ƿiþ XKBVARIANT="intl… makes my keyboard an ‘International’ one. Ðat gives me the riȝt Alt key as AltGr (alternate graphic character), ſo AltGr‐d is ð, AltGR‐D is Ð, AltGr‐t is þ, AltGr‐s is ß & ſo on.
Oðer characters, ſuch as ðe loŋ ſ or ðe ŋ, muſt be compoſed. XKBOPTIONS="[…]compose:rwin… enables me to preß ðe riȝt logo key folloƿed by a combination. So Compoſe‐fs is ſ, Compoſe‐ng is ŋ, Compoſe‐NG is Ŋ, Compoſe‐--- is — & ſo on. Some combinations I uſe are already defined, ƿhile for oðers ſuch as Compoſe‐ww beiŋ ƿ, Compoſe‐WW beiŋ Ƿ or Compoſe‐--, beiŋ ‐ I muſt inſert at /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose a few lines, ſuch as:
<Multi_key> <minus> <minus> <comma> : "‐" U2010 # HYPHEN
RIP Andre Hedrick (Register) Posted Sep 18, 2012 15:51 UTC (Tue) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link]
~/.XCompose should be just enough.
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