Wait hold on I just realized.

[bigshellevent@toot.cat]

@mcc you've been on Chinese fanfiction sites I see

[slowtiger@berlin.social]

@mcc @Heliograph @rk
It's a Totoro umbrella.

[kranzi@mastodon.green]

@mcc i think the first one is japanese, the second simplified chinese.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@porglezomp I'm talking to someone and we think we found the android API

[groxx@hachyderm.io]

@0xabad1dea @mcc I suppose the only actually reliable approach would be to store the IME locale per character or something so that it can be accurately rendered as it was written... or are these truly identical graphemes, and there's no chance of confusion in context? Even when people use multiple languages simultaneously?

(late edit after reading a lot more: ah, I see they DID just add a variant-selector character to effectively specify the locale... that seems a bit unlikely to gain major use, but technically I like it I guess)

Maybe one day we'll have UTF-8-2 and it'll just be infinitely extendable, rather than using a limited length prefix.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@groxx @0xabad1dea There are various existing solutions but just because the solutions exist does not mean people follow them corectly

[groxx@hachyderm.io]

@mcc @0xabad1dea definitely agreed. even technically, it seems very unlikely to me that any IME is going to choose to, like, add variant selectors *to every single character* and confuse their users when it's blended with other text or in a size-limited scenario. those characters already take up a ton of space, making it worse won't go over well.

[encthenet@flyovercountry.social]

@rachelplusplus
Yeah, I remember this from doing some i18n work, and the Wikipedia article appears to agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Unified_Ideographs

@mcc

[mcc@mastodon.social]

鸡机

Attempting to imagine the Chicken Machine

[ionchy@types.pl]

@mcc fun fact 雞雞 is baby talk for penis lol

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@ionchy nice lol

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Gaelan I thought this was a good solution https://mastodon.social/@noone2333/116146702971358411

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Gaelan Gaelan how do you feel about wuxia and/or girls who are really really *really* good friends

[gaelan@cathode.church]

@mcc uh, I’m not particularly familiar with Wuxia but am myself a girl who is really^3 good friends with a number of girls

[01d55@mastodon.social]

@mcc AT-ST

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcc one needs not imagine the chicken machine https://youtu.be/dl9beG4LbJU