Questions tagged [unicode]
For challenges involving unicode.
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Z̡̬a̧̯̔l̆̓g̛̘̟o̡ generator
Write a program or function that transforms an input string into Zalgo text.
For example, for an input string Zalgo, a possible output might look like:
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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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Operation Unz̖̬̜̺̬a͇͖̯͔͉l̟̭g͕̝̼͇͓̪͍o̬̝͍̹̻
I'm sure you're all familiar with Z̃͗̇̚͟Ḁ̬̹̈̊̂̏̚L̜̼͊ͣ̈́̿̚G̱̮ͩ̃͑̆ͤ̂̚Õ̷͇͉̺̜̲ͩ́ͪͬͦ͐ ̪̀ͤͨ͛̍̈͢ĝ̭͇̻̊ͮ̾͂e̬̤͔̩̋ͮ̊̈ͭ̓̃n͖͎̘̭̯̳͎͒͂̏̃̾ͯe͕̖̋ͧ͑ͪ̑r̛ͩa̴͕̥̺̺̫̾ͭ͂ͥ̄ͧ͆t͍̻̘̆o͓̥ͤͫ̃̈̂r̹̤͇̰̻̯̐ͮ̈́ͦ͂͞. If not, you can play ...
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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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Braille graphics
Cut a boolean matrix in 4x2 blocks and render them as Braille characters U+2800...U+28FF.
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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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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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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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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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Bytes/Character
Task
Given a UTF-8 string (by any means) answer (by any means) an equivalent list where every element is the number of bytes used to encode the corresponding input character.
Examples
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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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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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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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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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HE COMETH NOT - a zalgo challenge [duplicate]
Write a program or function that, given a string, will strip it of zalgo, if any exists.
Zalgo
For this post, zalgo is defined as any character from the following Unicode ranges:
Combining ...
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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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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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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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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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Output the Hebrew alphabet
Your task is to print this exact text:
אבגדהוזחטיכךלמםנןסעפףצץקרשת
(You are allowed to print a trailing newline)
SHA256 hash of the UTF-8 encoding of the text:
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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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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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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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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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Braille-ify a string
And no, This is not a dupe of Translate ASCII text to braille.
There are 28=256 Braille patterns in Unicode. (By 'Braille' I mean 8-cell ones)
W, wait. How many ASCII characters were there?
27 = 128?
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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.
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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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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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Reverse Boustrophedon Text
Boustrophedon is a type of bi-directional text where successive lines alternate between reading left-to-right and right-to-left. Character direction was also mirrored with respect to reading direction....
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Squish-unsquish ligatures
Here is a list of some common
ligatures in Unicode (the
ones I could create with my Compose key on Debian):
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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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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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Convert ASCII box drawing into Unicode
I am shamelessly posting a request for something I would actually find useful. The task is to take an arbitrary ascii box drawing like this
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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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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
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0_
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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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