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  • Why not! ;-P

    From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Wed Jan 8 17:38:08 2025
    After letter by letter cut&paste constructing something else in wide
    chars, this needed to get simpler!

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~/wrk/unicode-papoy$ date | ./wide
    Ｗｅｄ ８ Ｊａｎ １３：３３：３７ ＵＴＣ ２０２５ ~/wrk/unicode-papoy$ ./wide <<< 'I just want to play!'
    Ｉ ｊｕｓｔ ｗａｎｔ ｔｏ ｐｌａｙ！
    ~/wrk/unicode-papoy$ ./wide <<< 'Why not! ;-P'
    Ｗｈｙ ｎｏｔ！ ；－Ｐ
    ~/wrk/unicode-papoy$ █ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    That's just a more than only brainless AWK script, not even worth to
    publish.

    <https://unicode-explorer.com/b/FF00> will get you started.

    <http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_full-width_chars.html> has an online
    helper to convert stuff to double width and as always I only stumbled
    into that one after my hack was finished.

    One question remained: Does a double width space exist?

    I'm using two normal spaces and that seems to fit ™well enough™.
    -- Ｉ　ｄｏ　ｎｏｔ　ｂｉｔｅ，　Ｉ　ｊｕｓｔ　ｗａｎｔ　ｔｏ　ｐｌａｙ．
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Wed Jan 8 17:39:36 2025
    Oh!
    That online helper uses a double width space!
    My hack gets an update!
    --
    I do not bite, I just want to play.
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Wed Jan 8 17:51:55 2025
    Not perfect, but much better than using "\" and "/". Additionally this
    may depend a lot on your local font.

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    \o/ ____( Memories! )
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    I do not bite, I just want to play.
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Wed Jan 8 17:54:04 2025
    Outch!
    That's mean!
    Is it only GNUS or do lines get split in every newsreader?
    --
    I do not bite, I just want to play.
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Wed Jan 8 18:31:58 2025
    Ah... GNUS!
    Saw it in Evolution and it looks as intended.
    So that's something for my GNUS to do list...
    --
    I do not bite, I just want to play.
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Wed Jan 8 23:01:24 2025
    Maybe it's time to switch to the "one true AWK".

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~/wrk/unicode-papoy$ gawk -f wide <<< 'gawk'
    ｇａｗｋ
    ~/wrk/unicode-papoy$ mawk -f wide <<< 'mawk'
    ����
    ~/wrk/unicode-papoy$ otawkbsdpe -f wide <<< 'onetrueawk/bsd plus -E' ｏｎｅｔｒｕｅａｗｋ／ｂｓｄ　ｐｌｕｓ　－Ｅ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Meanwhile OTAWK seems safe with Unicode and it's BSD features branch has bit-ops, which I sometimes missed in standard AWK. Additionally I am experimenting with adding GAWK's "-E" option which is also seen as "-We"
    in MAWK to OTAWK.

    See <https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/issues/125>.
    --
    Trust me, I know what I'm doing...
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