Post #1225397
2026-04-05 15:46 UTC
@zuthal @Li @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 But that's the question, how do you define that? What about an arrangement that shouldn't be read that way but looks like it could?
I personally find the take of "reasonable sighted reader", even as a sighted reader, to be dismissive of the purpose of the characters in their usual context.
I think the real fix is for more platforms to offer text formatting for posts and maybe even display names. It doesn't solve everyone doing it for weirder looking characters but it at least solves the reasons most people use the bold or italic or strike through looking characters -- because they can't merely use underscores, slashes, or asterisks for formatting it.
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@zuthal@floofy.tech 2026-04-05 17:34
@KayOhtie @Li @fizzyizzy05 @0x4d6165 I would go one further and say that every website should allow at least full BBcode formatting in post text, which would also allow setting fonts different from the browser/OS default font, if not even full custom CSS for posts like cohost had.