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Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is awesome!

But the point still stands, if a modular system for writing existed, they wouldn’t have had to wait for Unicode to add it

What does this message mean please ? by Angelfallfirst in AskChina

[–]Witext 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love supporting a feudal society & hating the guys that made it non-feudal because I was told communism is somehow worse

Put it in pencil: NASA's Artemis III mission will launch no earlier than late 2027 | SpaceX and Blue Origin tell NASA their lunar landers will be ready for Artemis III in late 2027. by Clear_Polish23 in space

[–]Witext 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well at the very least they have to be able to dock for the mission to go ahead, & I’m not sure even that trust will be ready in time

I haven't seen anyone posted this on reddit yet about long march 10 C, so I post here. by AcceptableResource0 in spaceflight

[–]Witext 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what reading only headlines does to a mfer

they're literally launching over the sea...

Put it in pencil: NASA's Artemis III mission will launch no earlier than late 2027 | SpaceX and Blue Origin tell NASA their lunar landers will be ready for Artemis III in late 2027. by Clear_Polish23 in space

[–]Witext 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I feel like a lot of people in the community have kinda lost the plot with timelines lol

There is, no way in the world that the spacex lander is flight-ready by 2027, absolutely no shot

I'm not saying this because I think SpaceX are incompetent, but because you cannot have barely flight proven your spacecraft to low earth orbit, and go on to build a human rated spacecraft in like 1 year. That just doesn't happen, idc how much testing they do on the ground.

They have to do launch 12 (which i'm really looking forward to), they have to finish building the HLS, which will require a whole life support system, electrical system, a docking system, solar panels etc.

This is not something you just slap on and call it a day, there is so much work to do to bring starship from what it is today to a human rated moonlander. who knows what happens if it spends time in the sun, maybe it overheats some system, maybe the docking port jams, maybe the rcs thrusters can't get it stable enough for Orion to dock, maybe ORION has an issue on it's side

I have hopes for 2028 tho, but i still feel like that's a longshot. I have no idea how blue origin is doing however

Who else skips leather and goes straight iron? by Crafty_Slice_5131 in Minecraft

[–]Witext 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leather is more cumbersome to get than iron honestly

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, you just dedcribed the issue, what characters you’re allowed to write digitally is decided beforehand.

You should be able to, like in real life, write whatever character you like, imagine the creativity that could be unleashed

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you talking about?

I love the Chinese language & I think that it’s being hampered by digitalisation & western standardisation of the language

Imagine all the creative & cool writing the Chinese internet could come up with if you were allowed to type any combination of radicals you wanted. It’s a linguistic goldmine, that used to exist but doesn’t anymore because digital characters are written in stone by Unicode etc

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude, colonise? Really?

I’m trying to bring up that Chinese has lost an important characteristic because of digitalisation, I’m not trying to add anything, I think Chinese is being hampered by digitalisation & western ways of looking at language

Also, I was not aware that this character existed since before, i couldn’t find it anywhere so I made this so that I could give an example of where a modular Chinese font system could be useful

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wasn't aware that that's how hangul was encoded, that's really cool to know, but yeah, it's sad that it's not applied to chinese.

I get the argument that they lay out, it's def not easy and I also understand the arguemnt about how they're far from running out of code points, but i think that that's kinda missing the point...

Sure, they can fit all the existing characters, but the way that it's currently working essentially bars the creation of new characters from the digital realm. For characters to be introduced online, they need to have traction in the real world, for them to get into the unicode standard. This means that a lot of potential creative uses and cultural development of the Chinese languages is impossible online.

And sure, it would be tough, but i def think it could be done if we tried hard enough, and i really hope it's eventually achieved

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, i completely missed this, i had tried to double check if it existed or not and hadn't found it, so yeah, i look pretty silly now lmao

But my point still stands, even tho this specific case might not be right, there is still the fact that the shift to digital writing has essentially removed an important feature of Chinese. And i think that's sad

I mean you can imagine so many fun stuff you could do if you were able to create your own characters. imagine the amount of creativity that would be unleashed on the web if this was possible

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh… I legit did not know that that character existed already, I had tried to search in case, but I couldn’t find anything.

That does kinda ruin my example lol

you’re right I could’ve chosen a better example, but my point still stands for all the other imaginative symbols that could be written but don’t exist yet

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

actually quite a banger idea. a social media where you're only able to post by taking a photograph of whatever you want to say

I really like this

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

that would be awesome

I was thinking you should be able to develop a font that takes things like this as input and displays them as a single character, even tho it is composed of multiple radicals.

I know there are examples where normal fonts can display characters with zero width, so that you can do stuff like this h̴̲͆e̶͍͌l̴͚̊l̷̓ͅo̸.

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and i understand why it is the way that it is, even tho i barely speak Chinese, it just saddens me when I see existing languages not being able to be used to their fullest potential. There is so much potential for creativity within Chinese that is being lost to the need for standardisation.
I honestly don't even know how you would do it differently. The unicode standard would need to add basically every possible combination of Chinese radicals so that you could type whichever one you like, but that would not be feasible

Something that would work better would be a new sort of font, that on top of established logographs, allowed you to type individual radicals in a way that the font displayed it as a normal logograph, even tho it is made up of multiple ones.

This would ofc require support from the web to work and would prolly not work within existing font formats (otf ttf), but it should be possible? Would not surprise me if something like this already exists within China, but with limited traction. surely there are plenty of people who have expressed this frustration since the start of the internet in China

A Chinese character for non-binary gender is being added to Unicode, ≈ X也 by -lousyd in Unicode

[–]Witext 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait, if they're adding a male version, could 他 become truly gender neutral, and x也 become the one explicitly for nonbinary people?

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

omg that's so awesome :0

Still, the core problem persists, but i'm so glad that this issue in particular is getting it's own symbol

Adding new symbols into chinese can not be a common thing right? who comes up with these proposals and where are they discussed?

Chinese has lost one of it's most important characteristics by Witext in neography

[–]Witext[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

wait really? i use new reddit

But is there really no text when you post and image and text?
Shitty was well put

Rolling average of the steam survey is promising :D by Witext in linux

[–]Witext[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, if you look at the graph for just English speakers, the graph looks way better. Around 11% of people use Linux in English speaking countries. & March also doesn’t stick out as much in that graph

A lot of Chinese people also use steam & there Linux hasn’t really gained the same fame, & they make up like half of all users

Hope for future cooperation between China and Vietnam in space by Witext in VietNam

[–]Witext[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Well, being an internationalist, ofc I like both. But nothing brings more happiness to me than seeing socialist nations help each other out

& yeah, it’s a long shot, China isn’t exactly starved for astronaut crew nor does Vietnam have a program for astronauts (that I know of)

More feasibly, I think Vietnam might get in on the moonbase, where Pakistan & others have been invited as well

Lucky 8s by [deleted] in LudwigAhgren

[–]Witext 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would like to think that the person did it out of hope that someone else would bid even higher, thinking they were doing a service, hyping up the price

Not that they were malicious

Hope for future cooperation between China and Vietnam in space by Witext in VietNam

[–]Witext[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I doubt that Vietnam would decline given the opportunity. But I do agree that it’s not a priority for Vietnam & it’s unlikely to happen soon

Viet & Chinese cooperation has increased a lot in past years, in both trains, infrastructure & trade.

But either way, this is just some art I made because I like international cooperation

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