i think it’s cool how you can tell how much of a mac head someone is not by whether they know applescript or how many open source applications they have installed on their machine but by whether they are angriest about iTunes, iPhoto, or Disk Utility
proof that microsoft doesn’t know what the fuck they’re doing or who the fuck they’re marketing to
@coriander “or cure an old goron’s depression”
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@aschmitz i do insular t’s, except in cursive, where i do stars
“encode the text that people will want to search for” is in fact a pretty good rule of thumb tho; if a spelling should be findable by searching the equivalent with basic latin letters, it should be encoded using them
re: typography
@akjcv@types.pl well, Icelandic has them different
Old Norse didn’t exactly have a standardized orthography and whether it distinguished Þ and Ð likely depends on both time period and scribe
and likewise, the fact that Old English equated the two doesn’t say anything about whether Modern English should or shouldn’t, or else we wouldn’t be using J or U either
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