Questions tagged [unicode]
For challenges involving unicode.
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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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Spell out the Revu'a
Actually not inspired neither by Atbash Self Palindromes nor by Generalized Gematria Calculator.
Given a string s of length n, output the Revu'a sequence, which is the first character of s, the first ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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:
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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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Print Real Invisible Text
My previous challenge, Print invisible text was quite popular, likely due to how trivial it is.
However those more observant of you may have noticed that you're not really printing invisible text, ...
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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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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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Unicode UTF Converter
The goal is to create a fully compliant converter between the official Unicode encodings as given in the UTF FAQ. Given that this is centred on Unicode, I will accept the answer with the lowest byte ...
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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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Sᴍᴀʟʟ Cᴀᴘꜱ Cᴏɴᴠᴇʀᴛᴇʀ
Portable Spec.
Iɴꜱᴘɪʀᴇᴅ ʙʏ @ConorO'Brien's ᴜꜱᴇʀɴᴀᴍᴇ.
Aʟꜱᴏ ᴛʜᴀɴᴋꜱ ᴛᴏ @Dᴏᴏʀᴋɴᴏʙ ꜰᴏʀ ꜱʜᴏᴡɪɴɢ ᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇxɪꜱᴛᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴏꜰ ǫ ᴀɴᴅ x.
Sᴍᴀʟʟ ...
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Output "Lorem ipsum" with minimal number of characters
I remember people saying that code size should be measured in bytes, and not in characters, because it's possible to store information with weird Unicode characters, which have no visual meaning.
How ...
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Count the bytes of a program
Note 2: I accepted @DigitalTrauma's 6-byte long answer. If anyone can beat that I will change the accepted answer. Thanks for playing!
Note: I will be accepting an ...
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Convert CSV to Table
The Challenge
Given a CSV input, output a proper unicode table using box characters.
Formatting
The table will be formatted using the following rules:
Column width will be equal to the longest ...
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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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Print a shuffled deck of cards
Input
None
Output
52 cards. No duplicates. Cards are represented as their unicode characters, e.g. 🂹.
The Unicode codepoints follow the following format:
The first three digits are ...
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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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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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Parse my Esperanto!
The famous constructed language Esperanto uses the Latin alphabet (mostly, see the linked wikipedia page for details). However, there are some characters with accents: ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ, and ŭ. (C-...
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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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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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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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Operation Unz̖̬̜̺̬a͇͖̯͔͉l̟̭g͕̝̼͇͓̪͍o̬̝͍̹̻
I'm sure you're all familiar with Z̃͗̇̚͟Ḁ̬̹̈̊̂̏̚L̜̼͊ͣ̈́̿̚G̱̮ͩ̃͑̆ͤ̂̚Õ̷͇͉̺̜̲ͩ́ͪͬͦ͐ ̪̀ͤͨ͛̍̈͢ĝ̭͇̻̊ͮ̾͂e̬̤͔̩̋ͮ̊̈ͭ̓̃n͖͎̘̭̯̳͎͒͂̏̃̾ͯe͕̖̋ͧ͑ͪ̑r̛ͩa̴͕̥̺̺̫̾ͭ͂ͥ̄ͧ͆t͍̻̘̆o͓̥ͤͫ̃̈̂r̹̤͇̰̻̯̐ͮ̈́ͦ͂͞. If not, you can play ...
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Hello World in Multiple Languages
Task
Create a program or a function that is valid in multiple programming languages, and when compiled/interpreted as a different language outputs "Hello, World!" in a different natural language.
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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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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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Print the character names [closed]
Every Unicode character has a name, like "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A". A Unicode character name may contain only uppercase letters, white spaces, and the minus sign.
Write a program that reads a text and ...
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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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Is it an emoji?
I've been working on this iOS app recently and I encountered a (rather easily solved) problem: How do I determine if my string is comprised only of emojis?
Well, that's your job today!
Input
A ...
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I-Ching pair binary computer
Introduction
I Ching is an ancient divination text and the oldest of the Chinese classics. It uses a type of divination called cleromancy, which produces apparently random numbers.
The basic unit of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Take that frown and turn it around
A celebration of the many faces of APL
Given a string among those in column 1 or column 2 of the below table, return the string's neighbor to its right. In other words, if given a string in column 1 ...
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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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