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i wanted to experiment with Unicode in #uxn, so i wrote a little program that reads, decodes and displays each GNU Unifont glyph in the Basic Multilingual Plane, one at a time… at 60fps :3
the result is pretty mesmerising!
https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/unifont-appreciator/blob/trunk/hexdream.tal
this was a lot of fun to write. uxntal is an extremely fun assembly language to play with.
my goal of course is to write a partially unicode-capable text viewing program for #uxn. the ecosystem right know is very ascii-centric, so the language support is eurocentric at best, which is a real shame :(
i think a little effort can go a long way: utf-8 is easy to parse, and there's already gnu unifont, a free pixel font that covers almost all of unicode, which seems very uxn-friendly. combine those and you can “display” almost any unicode text, though with very, very big caveats
(the caveat is that scripts like arabic will not be displayed anywhere near correctly and this breaks my heart)
@hikari icuxn