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by alpb 2865 days ago
I'm having trouble understanding what this does. Apparently there's a popover when you select the text you typed. I had to go to https://github.com/ekmartin/unicode-style to figure this out.
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It's a kinda ascii-art thing that 𝔩𝔒𝔱𝔰 𝔢𝔬𝔲 π”žπ”«π”°π”΄π”’π”― π”₯𝔫 𝔠𝔬π”ͺπ”ͺ𝔒𝔫𝔱𝔰 π”žπ”©π”© π”£π”žπ”«π” π”Ά 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔒 𝔱π”₯𝔦𝔰. 𝕆𝕣 π•π•šπ•œπ•– π•₯π•™π•šπ•€ π•šπ•— π•ͺ𝕠𝕦 π•¨π•’π•Ÿπ•₯ 𝕝𝕖𝕀𝕀 π•˜π• π•₯π•™π•šπ•” π•žπ• π•£π•– 𝕠𝕦π•₯π•π•šπ•Ÿπ•–.

π™Έπšœπš—'𝚝 πšžπš—πš’πšŒπš˜πšπšŽ πšπš›πšŽπšŠπš?

Yup, appears relatively hard to use via Chrome mobile with Gboard. You just about can, but most words get swallowed and the site popover is in the same place as the Android text assistance popover
𝔇𝔬𝔱π”₯ 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 π”₯𝔬𝔴 𝔱𝔬 𝔲𝔰𝔒 π”°π”žπ”¦π”‘ π”žπ”²π”±π”¬π”ͺπ”žπ”±π”’π”‘ 𝔠𝔬π”ͺ𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔒𝔯 π”¬π”­π”’π”―π”žπ”±π”¦π”¬π”«?
Also seems to support the "standard" shortcuts for formatting (Ctrl+I/U/B, perhaps others), but yeah, the introduction might be lacking.