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by jart 2066 days ago
Come on there's tons of good stuff in the astral planes like 𐌾𐍈𐍊𐌷𐌹𐌴, runes, full metal alchemy, egyptian, cuneiform (which has had a lot of impact in the past helping with those hefty Go hello world binaries), and ππšΉπ™‡π—— math that doesn't need a <b> tag. See https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/astralplanes.txt
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Congrats, you've overloaded CoreText on my machine. Safari refused to load that page for me and running it through less made Terminal hang a lot.

Also, fun fact that I just learned: CoreText synchronously calls through to a font registry in fontd using XPC to draw text on the main thread in your app.

Fascinating, I see for the first time how many of those are present in iOS. I’ll have to check them all in other platforms.