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| | So unless you're mis-using characters which are not supposed to be numbers (which would change the screenreader experience from annoying in this case to actually unintelligible and is therefore ill-advisable), that's probably the closest you'd get. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.139|141.101.104.139]] 09:35, 24 September 2019 (UTC) | | So unless you're mis-using characters which are not supposed to be numbers (which would change the screenreader experience from annoying in this case to actually unintelligible and is therefore ill-advisable), that's probably the closest you'd get. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.139|141.101.104.139]] 09:35, 24 September 2019 (UTC) |
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| − | ;reductio ad absurdum (or HHOS)
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| − | This article, as written, made me laugh out loud even louder than the original cartoon which also made me laugh out loud.
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| − | It seems to me that the joke of this strip originated with the idea that there really ARE lowercase numbers (also called oldstyle) which, like glyphs for lowercase letters go below and above the usual line of type. The joke also forces a meta-level of thinking by overlapping the idea of a type-font or type-face and the idea of a character being unique because of its meaning more than because of its appearance. Unicode matches integers to characters - but only in the context of a font does that have to do with the character's glyph - other aspects of characters are things like upper-case v. lower-case, phonetic value, what constitutes proper sort order, which character are digits and which are letters, which are punctuation, etc. etc. etc. A character's appearance, or glyph, (bitmap or set of analog drawing instructions) is only a small part of what makes a character a character. Godel Escher Bach deals with these meta-levels as does Russel's paradox and non-trivial concepts in math, geometry, and science, as well as other fields. As such the joke is a kind of conceptual pun. However. The joke could be taken one level further by actually making a TrueType font which really does have uppercase and lowercase numbers - like a dingbat font, but where the uppercase-ness and lowercase-ness of the characters are kept, but the glyphs of a thru j are lowercase (oldstyle) numbers and the glyphs of Z thru J are uppercase (taken from the cartoon) numbers - 0 thru 9 could be Lining Figures digits. If the font was designed using SVG (and a SVG to TrueType converter) the entire SVG file could be created with the keyboard, using only 7-bit ascii (which is a subset of UTF-8, Codepage 437, Codepage 850, Codepage 1252 and many others) and XML character entities.
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| − | I am also surprised that no one has mentioned the old DOS/Windows ALT+Numeric-Keyboard trick for entering any one-byte character - which really worked with real keyboards (and I think is still supported in MS Word). There was a time when a clever hacker could use this and the DOS prompt to create a executable by COPY CON FOO.COM - which would fit nicely with the text "use this power wisely". But maybe I am reading too much into it.
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| − | * https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-easily-insert-special-symbols-and-characters-windows-part-i.htm
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| − | * https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-easily-insert-special-symbols-and-characters-windows-part-ii.htm
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| − | * https://www.minitool.com/news/alt-codes-not-working-on-windows-10.html
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| − | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
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| − | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_850
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| − | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
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| − | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
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| − | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
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| − | * https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/copycon.htm
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| − | * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2354560/creating-an-executable-file-without-a-compiler
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| − | * https://colinord.blogspot.com/2015/02/extreme-programming-hand-coded.html
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| − | * https://onlineconvertfree.com/convert-format/svg-to-ttf/
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| − | * https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/svg_intro.asp
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| − | * https://www.tutorialspoint.com/xml/xml_character_entities.htm
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| − | * http://unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html
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| − | * Insert the ANSI character
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| − | ** https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-in-word-95ef89dd-7142-4b50-afb2-f762f663ceb2#PickTab=Windows
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| − | [[User:BrianFennell|BrianFennell]] ([[User talk:BrianFennell|talk]]) 19:11, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
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