It's "hook" which is indeed the hook from the question mark (which is a period with hook above) originally but in computer "cell"-based typesets it got deformed.
Reminds me of when I had to sign my English name in school in Quebec with a bunch of pointless diacritic marks they kept changing on me to make my name look more French.
Now you make me curious. What's your English name and what diacritics were they forcing on you? I'm from QC, and I don't think anyone (sane) would do that on purpose, but I admit to accidentally putting diacritics on names all the time out of habit.
This was the 70's where my second grade teacher actually whacked me with a ruler for being left handed. So different times, I'm guessing. I can't say exactly what diacritic marks they insisted we use because they kept constantly changing it all the time.
Oh, the brilliant invention of UTF-8 encoding in 1992, along with a clear means of making sure that each step in transmission could understand it was being used, and we still fuck it up.
Either (a) the code in at least one step is pre-1992 (b) there are still plenty of careless coders out there.
For more than you wanted to know, see Wikipedia. And the à is seen most often because it happens to be the first part of an two-character encoding for a character in "Latin-1", which includes all of the non-English Western European languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
Well, it's more of Microsoft and Apple were at fault. Apple for longtime held on 8-bit tables, Microsoft invented their own encoding of different standard (GOST, ISO, etc..) into one giant mess of codepages and wide char... and UTF-16 to unite them all in file system.
I was a creative lead on Guitar Hero 3 and 4. When I designed a freestyle feature I had to map out every chord combination and there happens to be 26, so I turned it into ciphers and hung printouts of note highways around the office. The autistic guy who ended up on MineCraft solved it in an hour 😂
I have it on a hard drive some where, but its easy to derive. I started with two button chords, then 3, 4, 5. Adjacent chords come before split chords. 1 gap splits, then 2, 3, 4.
I even named all the chords.
Green + Red = Gred = A
Green + Red + Yellow + Blue + Orange = Gredelluerange = Z
I briefly tried making a decoder in Excel but the MID function sees some of the characters as multiple characters so I decided I should do my actual work instead
I have created a 32 bit adder at the logic level using circular references in Excel, as well as Conway’s Game of Life with circular references, without circular references, and with VBA. I also made a MacPaint style drawing program in Excel with the cells as pixels (using VBA)…
…I was at work today however and couldn’t justify spending more than a few minutes on it, and also I just kinda lost interest which is probably the real reason I stopped LOL.
I feel like this would be useful if there were an audible version as well. I'd like to convey something with my daily cries of agony upon opening my eyes. Just an idea of course.
This is it. The first real test. The first time we send a shockwave through the system that has controlled us for too long.
On Friday, February 28th, we go dark. For 24 hours, we stop feeding the machine. No spending. No unnecessary purchases. No engagement with major corporations.
@nora.zone it would be funny (though probably not what you want to spend time on) if you incorporated secret phrases with this into @infinitescream.bsky.social :-0
My buddy and I once made our own alphabet using this same tactic... There were like 5 main shapes and the Dots in different locations would mean different letters... By week two we had it memorized and teachers couldn't read our notes as we passed them around class 😂
The Scream Cipher, what a playful way to write messages using variations of the letter "A" with different accents. Each accent represents a different letter, making it a fun code to communicate secretly. So, instead of the usual alphabet, you just use these accented "A"s to spell out your message!
First the all A crossword, now the scream cipher. Are you by any chance doing thermal physics? This is generally the source of these levels of yelling for me
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AAAAAA A ÃA̧AȂA̦ ǍÅÂÃĀÁȂ AAAAAAA!
my own text:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaæ!
> Hello
> Hi
"Ok"
(Sherlock Holmes)
(And your stick figure people are right there!)
my iPhone keyboard having long-pressed the “a” to bring up the list of a dozen diacritics for a: aàáâäǎæãåāăą
Also, this
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conlang
But https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=3054:_Scream_Cipher aggrees with you
It works!
https://brodiesnotes.blogspot.com/2012/08/rendering-letters-with-umlauts-etc.html
Either (a) the code in at least one step is pre-1992 (b) there are still plenty of careless coders out there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
I have certain threats I want to make quirky and fun
I even named all the chords.
Green + Red = Gred = A
Green + Red + Yellow + Blue + Orange = Gredelluerange = Z
🤷♀️😂
am i special kind of dumb because its Pello to me
Have you tried building a 16 bit CPU in excel instead?
https://youtu.be/5rg7xvTJ8SU?si=ELIg1mkbMnpbW1Bc
Sonofabitch!!
This is it. The first real test. The first time we send a shockwave through the system that has controlled us for too long.
On Friday, February 28th, we go dark. For 24 hours, we stop feeding the machine. No spending. No unnecessary purchases. No engagement with major corporations.
* To Scream https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z22725
* From Scream: https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z22728
"Hi"...
This is fun, when is the new duolingo update coming?
(translated:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH)
https://github.com/KyleM73/AHHH
It translates to "HELLO" in standard English. Each group of accented "A"s corresponds to a letter, forming that word.
AAAAA A SCARY MONSTER AAAAA
((Also I forgot that ‘A’ counted as an A when I made said chart. Special A’s only. I’m so good at ciphers.))
I thought they were holding coffee cups and were greeting each other verbally
what kind of phone is that? Where do you put the coffee
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
https://youtu.be/ApxnAr6pRt0?si=rI_YBiHjV9XOGvWI
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꧁༒༻⛧༺༒꧂
AͣAᷨAͨAͨAͩAͤAᷥAᷚAͪAͥA̓̇AᷜAᷝAͫAᷠAͦAᷮAᷭAͬAᷤAͭAͧAͮAᷱAͯA̍̌Aᷦ
Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3054#Transcript