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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They’re trying to be edgy and use the obsolete thorn character (þ) everywhere you would normally pronounce “th”.

While I usually enjoy rifling through the UTF-8 character set for better/more-appropriate glyphs such as curly quotes instead of straight quotes and the numero glyph instead of the hash/pound symbol, the thorn character ain’t going to be making a comeback.

Edit: fun fact, even the temperature symbols have their own fully-assembled glyphs — Fahrenheit ℉ and Celsius ℃ come fully assembled as a single character glyph that you can use without having to cobble together shit. One of my biggest annoyances is seeing the degree glyph (which a math glyph, and has NOTHING to do with temperature) mashed together with a letter in a wholly inappropriate Frankensteining.

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[–] amelore@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

℉ and Celsius ℃ come fully assembled as a single character One of my biggest annoyances is seeing the degree glyph

The Unicode Consortium disagrees with you. ℉ and ℃ are included for round-trip convertibility, they are compatibility characters. That doesn't mean you're not supposed to use them, but the decomposition of ℉ is ° + F, which does mean they are equivalent and that it is correct to use ° for both angles and temperatures.

It's like how hyphen-minus has two very different uses but is one character.

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[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This is the sort of nerdery I'm here for! Pray tell, how would you go about using those temperature glyphs with a phone keyboard?

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Since a long press on any key doesn’t bring any of those up, my method involved going to the text replacement section of the system settings, and doing a replacement entry. I copy the glyph from wherever I find it on the Internet and assign a unique string (the “shortcut”) to have iOS insert it. I’ve used a reliable pattern, such as (degc) (yes, including the brackets) for ℃. You need to choose a string that you will never otherwise use, otherwise you’ll be fighting against the text replacement.

Using this method I’ve added all sorts of special characters like fractions ¼ ⅙ ⅛ mathematical symbols ± « ≈ ≠ and even text emoji ಠ_ಠ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and other random symbols № ® ™.

Fun fact: if you have an AppleID-linked Mac, this will all sync over, letting you use these shortcuts on the Mac as well.

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

He's doing it in an attempt to "sabotage" AI training.

It's also a useful flag to indicate that he doesn't understand how AIs are trained.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s akin to those anti-AI Creative Commons licenses that people link in their comments. If you think an AI is going to give a shit about a comment saying “pwetty pwease don’t use me for twaining” you have fundamentally misunderstood the scope of AI training.