PieFed Meta @piefed.social klu9 @piefed.social 2w ago

So someone put vertical text in a post title...

https://piefed.social/post/1004382

Same post viewed in Lemmy, it's all squashed into the same space as horizontal text.

https://lemmy.ca/post

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Shame nobody 🧵 posted actual vertical text:

ᠪᠣᠰᠰᠣᠣ ᠲеᠻᠰᠲ

☝️ If you don't see this vertically, your client is lying to you.

Also, 🖕 Unicode.
- Not vertical for me :(
  
  I don't know what that stuff in the post in question is, so I just called it vertical text. Until I squinted, I thought it might have been Manchu script :D
  
  Not vertical for me :(
  
  Switch 𐑑 client 𐑞𐑑 1) displays vertical text 2) 𐑯 has recursive font support. 𐑓 Mongolian Bichig, Gecko is recommended. (Not by me). Mongolian White is rec. as well.
  
  Here’s how our exchange should have looked like:
  
  Like others already mentioned 🧵, «Zalgo» is randomized unicode diacritics abuse. If 𐑘𐑹 client escaped 𐑞 diacritics, 𐑘𐑹 font is displaying diacritics correctly.
  
  𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 subs used
  
  Thanks for the info.
  
  TIL about Zalgo text.
- @AntiBullyRanger @klu9 I would like to see the verticle text in action, where can I load this to see it?
  
  I have since found out this not actually vertical text but something called Zalgo text, which adds lots of diacritics above and below letters to make the end result very tall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
  
  I haven't seen actual vertical text on PieFed yet.
  
  I'm honestly at a loss for recommendations. I tried Iceraven, and it didn't have reading or vertical text mode. Einkbro’s orientation is jarring for LtR language mixed with verticals:
  
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  In portrait mode, it should paragraph leftward. Ideally a 25 character wrap to indent the next line in the paragraph. I’ll try make an html+css example later.
- I love all the things unicode support by default but one should not be ashamed to refuse to support some features.

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