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by matijsvzuijlen 1437 days ago
The result looks beautiful but there are too many surprising magical actions for my taste. E.g., I wonder how "Last year MIT handed out 104 degrees to wombats." would be rendered.
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> The result looks beautiful but there are too many surprising magical actions for my taste. E.g., I wonder how "Last year MIT handed out 104 degrees to wombats." would be rendered.

I read the linked page, but couldn't tell how it's performing its magic. Are some or all of the words you used triggers for magical actions?

Testing the above "104 degrees" example in Firefox just now, I get:

  Last year MIT handed out 104° to wombats
Pasting back into Emacs, "M-x describe-char" says:

  code point in charset: 0xB0
  ...
  file code: #xC2 #xB0 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
  ...
  name: DEGREE SIGN