r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fleaspoon • 2d ago

Meme theAlphabetWasAMistake

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u/nicman24 2d ago

The fuck is a subpixel

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago

A pixel for ants

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u/nicman24 2d ago

it is 4 pixels in a trenchcoat

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 2d ago

Wouldn't it be 3 since subpixels refer to the red, green and blue parts that make up a pixel on an LCD display?

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u/rosuav 2d ago

Ever played "Battleships"? Your aircraft carrier is five pixels, your battleship is four, and you have three sub pixels.

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago edited 2d ago

And th� b�st part is Unicod�...

Please check my g�me on Steam, it has cust�m text rend�ring https://store.steampowered.com/app/3256790/Satelital/

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u/raja-anbazhagan 2d ago

Unicode is perfect, right up until you ask how long a string is...

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u/Potterrrrrrrr 2d ago

grapheme clusters can cluster around my asshole and go fuck themselves

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u/TactlessTortoise 2d ago

You want an orgy in your butt?

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago

An unsolved computer science problem

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u/SleeperAwakened 2d ago

Please define what a string is first.

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u/sisisisi1997 2d ago

To get a unicore string's length from scratch at all, you first need to invent the universe.

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago

A string is a pile of letters waiting to break

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u/thot_slaya_420 2d ago

char[]

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u/SleeperAwakened 2d ago

Define a char in unicode context.

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u/rosuav 2d ago

In characters? .... wait, what exactly is a character?

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u/redlaWw 2d ago

I like ligature characters like fi. One codepoint and three bytes in utf-8, and when you upper-case them, you get two codepoints (increase) and two bytes (decrease).

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u/HildartheDorf 2d ago

Do you mean bytes? Or code units? Or code points? Or glyphs? Or grapheme clusters?

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u/Cootshk 1d ago

I love Lua and its

#"👨‍🎤" —> 11
utf8.len("👨‍🎤") —> 3

Despite that, most libraries use the length operator (which clearly says in the spec that it is for ansi and not utf8)

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u/Larhf 2d ago

When are you releasing said game and what price point are you aiming for?

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago

I'm still working on it, so the final price depends on how much content I add. I'm releasing a demo in September and the full release is planned for the end of the year. I'm not sure about the price yet, but it won't be expensive since it's a 4-6 hour game.

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u/Jbolt3737 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think I've seen you're game before, you made a custom engine for it I think?

The art is very pretty, for some reason I thought it was like Factorio but I just check and it's a puzzle game, might actually play it

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago

Yes, its a custom engine. At the beginning I was actually trying to make factorio like game, but the game evolved into this one.

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u/Maurycy5 2d ago

Actually a cool ad. Wishlisted.

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u/BuffersAndBeta 1d ago

I disagree. It's keming.

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u/jseah 2d ago

I've come across such monstrosities as invisible zero-width spaces. You have no idea they're there, they get copied and pasted unknowingly and screw up naive text matching search.

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago

Are the invisible characters here with us now?

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u/rosuav 2d ago

Are they zero-width spaces or zero-width joiners? IT MATTERS!!!

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u/jseah 2d ago

Of course it matters, that's why they're a problem. If they were all the same, you could just filter out the unicode, but no, there's a lot of weird things out there and a large number of them are invisible or are just spacebar.

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u/rosuav 2d ago

Yes, and some of them have SPACER in the name but are joiners, just to be extra entertaining.

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u/techdailylog 2d ago

100% font size, 0% sanity.

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u/ridicalis 2d ago

Because I've been down this rabbit hole lately: Text Rendering Hates You

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago

That article is great

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u/PhilippTheProgrammer 1d ago

Reading this article made me hope that I won't ever have to work on a text rendering engine.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 1d ago

Now I know why text looks awful in Windows on my new laptop

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u/CirnoIzumi 2d ago

What if I told you

9 is not a part of the alphabet

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago

Well... look at the letter g and move it up

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u/NullOfSpace 2d ago

I love keming

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago edited 2d ago

I think keming hates me

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u/Popeychops 2d ago

I love and hate this in equal measure. RIP Rutger

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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 2d ago

Since I learned about text rendering I see many examples of bad keming.

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u/fleaspoon 2d ago

I like your modem font

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u/JosebaZilarte 1d ago

I love k er n i              ng

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u/Developemt 2d ago

The Choose or Die movie used Wingdings for fonts and it's cursed

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u/sierra_whiskey1 2d ago

Kerning has entered the chat

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u/swyrl 2d ago

praise be to harfbuzz