Agreed. The only thing that VS-15 is supposed to do is give the emoji a "text presentation", which the spec suggests as "black & white". And every example they show of a text presentation is exactly the same width as…
This was also an option on many "Glass TTY" terminals - it was called the margin bell - and even some modern terminal emulators still have that option. The exact semantics vary, but it's usually triggered when entering…
> "ANSI" is what people call it when they are working from paltry and incomplete samizdat doco of how this stuff works People just use "ANSI" as a shorthand for ANSI X3.64-1979. And that was the standard that DEC used…
FYI, there are a few terminals that can set the window size in pixels (with `CSI 4 t`). And it's also worth mentioning that there were already terminal emulators back in the 1980s that supported in-band resize…
Answered in the article: > However, it has exemptions for health and religious reasons.
The author mentions problems with flow control, but I'm fairly certain I got that working in MAME. If I remember correctly, you need to enable XON/XOFF in the VT102 configuration (it's one of the bits you can toggle on…
They have a working VT240 which supports the Sixel, ReGIS, and Tektronix graphics protocols. They also have partially working VK100, which is a bit like a VT100 with some graphics support (I think just ReGIS). They…
Smooth scrolling on the VT100 was 6 lines per second, but on later terminals you could adjust the speed to a certain degree, as much as 18 lines per second on the level 5 terminals. It's possible you'd still hate it…
On later DEC terminals you could also set left and right margins (lookup DECSLRM). They didn't support smooth scrolling when those margins were enabled, but I don't see why a modern terminal emulator couldn't handle…
IANAL, but the UK's copyright laws appear to me to have many of the same restrictions as the DMCA when it comes to circumventing copyright protection measures. And it wouldn't surprise me to find other countries had…
Interestingly, when you create a file name from the WSL shell using reserved Windows characters, those characters will get mapped to unicode codepoints from the private use area when viewed in Windows. So for example a…
Just FYI, I believe that deprecated usage was later undeprecated. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4726570/deprecation-of-t...
In case anyone cares, this is an option in Visual Studio too. Under "Text Editor > All Languages > Scroll Bars", you have the option to "Use map mode for vertical scroll bar". Can also be configured on a per-language…
Well if you're Russian (or one of the many other nationalities that uses a Cyrillic character set), then that's still not going to help you. If you visit аррІе.com (all Cyrillic characters) you wouldn't get any warning…
If you're willing to turn off JavaScript, you can have all the same content, but with silky smooth performance. On the "downside", though, you miss out on the social media sharing buttons, and auto-loading of the next…
Actually I think it's only 56K in pounds - 73K is the dollar value. It's confusing because the order of those values is swapped between the two maps. On the first map they have $73K (£56K), i.e. the dollar value is…
Yeah. As someone who lives on navigable river, it's not uncommon for me to see boats flying signal flags for variety of reasons. There's not a wide range of usage here mind you - it's typically tugs and workboats flying…
It was actually meant to have been ready this year, but the initial plans were scrapped for being too boring.[1] I suspect this means that they might now have come up with a new set of plans that they're willing to go…
In the esolang community, the name for this variation of Quine is a Narcissist or Narcissus program. You can see a bunch of examples in a number of different languages on the Rosetta Code website.…
Minor bug report: I was testing a page that was using SVG Stacks[1], where multiple icons are encapsulated in a single SVG image and the individual icons are referenced via fragment identifiers. This caused the WebBS…
Actually p2p file transfer via an infrared port[1] was a fairly common feature on laptops back in the day (this was probably before bluetooth took off). If you're on Windows, have a look in the "Network and Internet"…
These rules are designed to prevent you mixing codepoints from different languages, so you couldn't register something that looked like gmail but with the English 'a' replaced with a Cyrillic 'a'. However, if the name…
One technique I remember being used in DOS apps from many years ago was that the code would be encrypted in such a way that the next instruction to be executed would only be decrypted immediately before it was run. This…
I remember seeing something like this before too. This is the one I was thinking of. http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/
If you're wanting to use fragment identifiers to refer to multiple sprites in a single SVG, that issue was fixed in Chrome in November of last year.[1] I'm not sure if the fix has propagated widely enough to be…
Agreed. The only thing that VS-15 is supposed to do is give the emoji a "text presentation", which the spec suggests as "black & white". And every example they show of a text presentation is exactly the same width as…
This was also an option on many "Glass TTY" terminals - it was called the margin bell - and even some modern terminal emulators still have that option. The exact semantics vary, but it's usually triggered when entering…
> "ANSI" is what people call it when they are working from paltry and incomplete samizdat doco of how this stuff works People just use "ANSI" as a shorthand for ANSI X3.64-1979. And that was the standard that DEC used…
FYI, there are a few terminals that can set the window size in pixels (with `CSI 4 t`). And it's also worth mentioning that there were already terminal emulators back in the 1980s that supported in-band resize…
Answered in the article: > However, it has exemptions for health and religious reasons.
The author mentions problems with flow control, but I'm fairly certain I got that working in MAME. If I remember correctly, you need to enable XON/XOFF in the VT102 configuration (it's one of the bits you can toggle on…
They have a working VT240 which supports the Sixel, ReGIS, and Tektronix graphics protocols. They also have partially working VK100, which is a bit like a VT100 with some graphics support (I think just ReGIS). They…
Smooth scrolling on the VT100 was 6 lines per second, but on later terminals you could adjust the speed to a certain degree, as much as 18 lines per second on the level 5 terminals. It's possible you'd still hate it…
On later DEC terminals you could also set left and right margins (lookup DECSLRM). They didn't support smooth scrolling when those margins were enabled, but I don't see why a modern terminal emulator couldn't handle…
IANAL, but the UK's copyright laws appear to me to have many of the same restrictions as the DMCA when it comes to circumventing copyright protection measures. And it wouldn't surprise me to find other countries had…
Interestingly, when you create a file name from the WSL shell using reserved Windows characters, those characters will get mapped to unicode codepoints from the private use area when viewed in Windows. So for example a…
Just FYI, I believe that deprecated usage was later undeprecated. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4726570/deprecation-of-t...
In case anyone cares, this is an option in Visual Studio too. Under "Text Editor > All Languages > Scroll Bars", you have the option to "Use map mode for vertical scroll bar". Can also be configured on a per-language…
Well if you're Russian (or one of the many other nationalities that uses a Cyrillic character set), then that's still not going to help you. If you visit аррІе.com (all Cyrillic characters) you wouldn't get any warning…
If you're willing to turn off JavaScript, you can have all the same content, but with silky smooth performance. On the "downside", though, you miss out on the social media sharing buttons, and auto-loading of the next…
Actually I think it's only 56K in pounds - 73K is the dollar value. It's confusing because the order of those values is swapped between the two maps. On the first map they have $73K (£56K), i.e. the dollar value is…
Yeah. As someone who lives on navigable river, it's not uncommon for me to see boats flying signal flags for variety of reasons. There's not a wide range of usage here mind you - it's typically tugs and workboats flying…
It was actually meant to have been ready this year, but the initial plans were scrapped for being too boring.[1] I suspect this means that they might now have come up with a new set of plans that they're willing to go…
In the esolang community, the name for this variation of Quine is a Narcissist or Narcissus program. You can see a bunch of examples in a number of different languages on the Rosetta Code website.…
Minor bug report: I was testing a page that was using SVG Stacks[1], where multiple icons are encapsulated in a single SVG image and the individual icons are referenced via fragment identifiers. This caused the WebBS…
Actually p2p file transfer via an infrared port[1] was a fairly common feature on laptops back in the day (this was probably before bluetooth took off). If you're on Windows, have a look in the "Network and Internet"…
These rules are designed to prevent you mixing codepoints from different languages, so you couldn't register something that looked like gmail but with the English 'a' replaced with a Cyrillic 'a'. However, if the name…
One technique I remember being used in DOS apps from many years ago was that the code would be encrypted in such a way that the next instruction to be executed would only be decrypted immediately before it was run. This…
I remember seeing something like this before too. This is the one I was thinking of. http://nicolasgallagher.com/pure-css-gui-icons/
If you're wanting to use fragment identifiers to refer to multiple sprites in a single SVG, that issue was fixed in Chrome in November of last year.[1] I'm not sure if the fix has propagated widely enough to be…