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points by lightingthedark 1 day ago | 0 comments
Please no. We've already forced text systems to handle mixed directions, require combining multiple code points to make a single symbol, & display color pictures, let's not require animation to display a string correctly. We already have perfectly good systems for animation; don't stuff that into text rendering please.
[–] Pxtl 11 hours ago
If I was looking for new modifiers I'd look at the stuff people are already abusing unicode to do:

- Bold

- Italic

- Strikethrough

- Underline

- Subscript

- Superscript

- Fixed width

- Color

Arguably those should be HTML, but users obviously want them to be available in plain text, because they have the kind of semantic meaning that unicode was meant to handle.

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