Questions tagged [unicode]
For challenges involving unicode.
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Shift Braille down
Braille Patterns in Unicode contains 8 dots(⣿) and occupy area U+2800-U+28FF. Given a Braille Pattern character, where the bottom two dots are not used(aka. U+2800-...
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Chinese color mixing
Objective
Given two Chinese ideographs meaning basic colors, output the ideograph that means the color resulting from mixing them.
Basic colors
The basic colors are:
靑(U+9751; blue)
赤(U+8D64; red)
黃(...
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Translate the keitai input method
The keitai input method is a method for writing Japanese kana on a 12-key phone keypad. Similar to Western keypads, each kana is assigned to a key; when the key is pressed multiple times, it cycles ...
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Sum of strings (UTF-16 codepoints)
Your function must accept two strings and return new string where are UTF-16 code of all symbols is the sum of UTF-16 codes of inputs symbols
If the resulting sum is greater than ...
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Fractional Unicode Bars
Your program should take as input a number n that is greater than 0 and output a bar composed of n // 8 ▉ characters (U+2588), ...
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Compress Jelly's code page
In this challenge, you'll print out the SBCS of Jelly, a popular golfing language. Its code page looks like this:
_0
_1
_2
_3
_4
_5
_6
_7
_8
_9
_A
_B
_C
_D
_E
_F
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Universal Unicode Clock
Plot contrivance
You wake up to find that something has gone horribly wrong! Your time machine has malfunctioned and you are lost sometime between June 2022 and October 1991.
You check the computer ...
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Convert To Shorthand Part 2
Part 1 of the challenge revolved around converting the letters into specific unicode characters.
Lore
In this part we receive the output from the function made in Part 1, which now has to be arranged ...
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Convert To Shorthand Part 1
This challenge has been divided into parts.
Your goal is to convert a sentence into a form of 'short-hand'
For Part 1 these are the rules
Take in 1 word
Remove all vowels(a,e,i,o,u), except the ones ...
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Convert to UTF-∞
It's 22022 and the Unicode consortium is having a problem. After the writing system of the ⮧⣝Ⅲⴄ⟢⧩⋓⣠ civilization was assigned the last Unicode block, the consortium members have been scrambling to ...
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Mr. ASCII becoming uncanny with your own code
Let's make a little stupid program that simulates the meme "Mr. incredible becoming uncanny", but in this case, our little ASCII friend is going to react to our code length.
Objective:
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Convert the decimal digits of a string's Unicode codepoints to binary, reinterpret as decimal, and take the sum
Yeah... it's confusing. Let me explain it a little better:
With a string, get the unicode code points of each letter
Let's use "Hello World!".
The code ...
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Convert superscript numbers to normal numbers
Introduction
My gnome friends are writing a programming language and have asked for my help. Due to their size, the gnomes can only handle small superscript numbers instead of big numbers. However, ...
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Convert codepoint to UTF-1
UTF-1 is one of the methods to transform ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode into a sequence of bytes. It was originally for ISO 10646.
The UTF-1 encodes every character with variable length of byte sequence, ...
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Convert codepoint to UTF-9
UTF-9 was an April Fool's Day RFC joke specifications for encoding Unicode suitable for 9-bit nonet platforms.
Challenge
Your task is to implement a program or a function or a subroutine that takes ...
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Pretty print a grid of polyominoes
Write a function that accepts a rectangular grid of ids in any reasonable format, for example a multi-line string:
IIILOO
ILLLOO
and a string or list of box ...
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Fix Facebook exported JSON
When you export data in JSON from Facebook, the multi-byte Unicode characters are broken. Example Unicode characters and their representation inside JSON:
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Full name quine
Most Unicode characters have full names, for example ” is "RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK". You can find a useful reference here, just type in the character ...
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I give you ascii-art, you make it pseudo-3d
Do you know the optical effect of a tridimensional hand painted whit horizontal lines?
Examples
This challenge consists of making something like that effect with ascii, and transforming one 2d input ...
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To count the sum of all Unicode characters of a given input under an interesting constraint
Program: To count the sum of all Unicode characters of a given input.
(No need to display the output. The final answer can be calculated in any base no need to convert back to hexadecimal.)
Test case :...
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Unicode T-square
Challenge
Create a function or program that, when given an integer size, behaves the following way:
If size is equal to 1, ...
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Write a Unicode Unpacker
We all know scoring by characters is ripe for abuse. Let's prove this.
The Challenge
Output the following:
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Wuxings in Positive Action
Background
Wuxings(五行) are the five "elements" in Chinese philosophy. They are Fire(火), Water(水), Wood(木), Metal(金), and Soil(土). You can find them on East Asian calendar, where some days (...
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Count The Genus
Objective
Given a matrix of connected box drawing characters, count its genus, the number of plane sections it encloses.
Valid input
The box drawing characters are ...
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All you have to do is print the number 1! ...Twice
Your task
In your language of choice: create a program that outputs 1
This 1 may either be a string or value equivalent to the ...
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Parse a Unicode vulgar fraction
Objective
Given a string with single Unicode vulgar fraction, parse it to a rational number.
Valid inputs
A valid input is one of:
¼ U+00BC; one quarter
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Decode Arabic to Arabic Presentation Form
Objective
Given an Arabic string consisting of ISO/IEC 8859-6 Arabic letters (U+0621–063A, 0640–064A), decode it to Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70–FEFF).
Behavior of Arabic letters
ISO/IEC ...
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When I grow up I want to be ASCII
Task
Your task is to take a character in:
AÁÀÃÂBCÇDEÉÊFGHIÍJKLMNOÕÓÔPQRSTUÚVWXYZaáàãâbcçdeéêfghiíjklmnoõóôpqrstuúvwxyz
and turn it into a characters in:
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Count the Shantens
Introduction to Mahjong tiles
Mahjong (麻雀) is a board game that originates from China. Mahjong tiles used in this challenge are in Unicode points U+1F000 – U+1F021:
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Chopping Unicode Bytes [closed]
Introduction
Each Unicode codepoint can be represented as a sequence of up to 4 bytes. Because of this, it is possible to interpret some 2, 3, or 4-byte characters as multiple 1-byte characters. (See ...
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Convert Complex Chinese Numbers into Arabic Numbers
Your task is to convert Chinese numerals into Arabic numerals.
A problem similar to Convert Chinese numbers, however, more complex. Also, answers given there mostly don't satisfy all the conditions.
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Can this village have a wedding?
The quaint hamlet of Кодгольф in the Russian far east has a problem: their population is low (below 66), and no new people have arrived for years. Moreover, after centuries of near-isolation, just ...
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Russian Caesar cipher
The objective
Given a Russian text, encrypt it with Caesar cipher with key 16.
The basic Cyrillic alphabets
The basic Cyrillic alphabets are: (U+0410 – U+042F)
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North Korean dictionary order
The objective
Given a string of Hangul syllables, sort the characters in North Korean dictionary order.
Introduction to Hangul syllables
Hangul(한글) is the Korean writing system invented by Sejong ...
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What's the current zodiac?
Display the emoji of the eastern zodiac of given time, according to given country.
The eastern zodiac is a classification scheme that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a ...
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Test the endianness
Given a UTF-16 string, test its endianness.
Rules:
As long as the input is in UTF-16 without BOM, its type doesn't matter. In C++ on Windows, it can be ...
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Decode a UTF-8 string to character byte counts [duplicate]
Given a UTF-8 string, give a string that represents byte counts of each characters.
Rules:
As long as the input string is encoded in UTF-8 (without BOM), its type doesn't matter. In C++, it can be <...
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Operation Unz̖̬̜̺̬a͇͖̯͔͉l̟̭g͕̝̼͇͓̪͍o̬̝͍̹̻
I'm sure you're all familiar with Z̃͗̇̚͟Ḁ̬̹̈̊̂̏̚L̜̼͊ͣ̈́̿̚G̱̮ͩ̃͑̆ͤ̂̚Õ̷͇͉̺̜̲ͩ́ͪͬͦ͐ ̪̀ͤͨ͛̍̈͢ĝ̭͇̻̊ͮ̾͂e̬̤͔̩̋ͮ̊̈ͭ̓̃n͖͎̘̭̯̳͎͒͂̏̃̾ͯe͕̖̋ͧ͑ͪ̑r̛ͩa̴͕̥̺̺̫̾ͭ͂ͥ̄ͧ͆t͍̻̘̆o͓̥ͤͫ̃̈̂r̹̤͇̰̻̯̐ͮ̈́ͦ͂͞. If not, you can play ...
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How fast can I say your program?
I recently decided to download some dictation software, in order to help with my writing. However, it doesn't work very well when I'm coding, since I have to change from saying words to symbols and ...
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Sino-Korean numerals [duplicate]
The Korean language has two sets of numerals, a native Korean numerals and Sino-Korean numerals.
The native Korean numerals are mostly used for numbers under 100, such as age and time.
The Sino-...
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Convert to Suzhou numerals
Suzhou numerals (蘇州碼子; also 花碼) are Chinese decimal numerals:
0 〇
1 〡 一
2 〢 二
3 〣 三
4 〤
5 〥
6 〦
7 〧
8 〨
9 〩
They pretty much work like Arabic numerals, except ...
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Japanese pitch accent numbers
Your challenge is to turn a Japanese word and a dictionary pitch accent number into a new string where the rises and falls in pitch are marked: e.g. (2, ウシロ) → ウ/シ\ロ...
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Supreme Sum String
Supreme Sum String
Given an input string, return the word with the highest sum of each of its unicode characters.
Rules
The input should be seperated by whitespace
The value of each word is based ...
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Sort of numbers
Within the recesses of Unicode characters, there exists a Unicode block of (currently) 63 characters named "Number Forms", which consists of characters that have numerical values such as the roman ...
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Bake me some moji
Given a string, character list, byte stream, sequence… which is both valid UTF-8 and valid Windows-1252 (most languages will probably want to take a normal UTF-8 string), convert it from (that is, ...
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Render a monospaced bitmap font from image [closed]
Input is in this format:
image fontwidth fontheight rowwidth xoffset yoffset xgap ygap non-existent charstart thetextitself
thetextitself: The text that should ...
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Cross-Alphabetic Characters
Background
I saw this very interesting Venn Diagram on wikipedia: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet#/media/File:Venn_diagram_gr_la_ru.svg
It shows the letters (physical shapes) in different ...
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𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 F̲o̲r̲m̲a̲t̲t̲e̲r̲ (*Unicode* **Markdown** __Formatter__)
If you cannot see this post, you can use this image
Your task is to create a markdown parser that outputs Unicode. It should support 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱, 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤, 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎, and 𝗎̲𝗇̲𝖽̲𝖾̲𝗋̲𝗅̲𝗂...
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𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝖲𝖺𝗇𝗌 𝗔𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿
Introduction
Try to convert words to two different unicode fonts.
Challenge
Your task is to transform your input string into the 𝖬𝖺𝗍𝗁 𝖲𝖺𝗇𝗌 and 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱 unicode characters.
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Unicode Fractions
Given a fraction in the format m/n (where m and n are coprime integers), output the corresponding Unicode fraction. Your program/function will not be expected to ...
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