#also heard this kinda ascii code shit trips up some tts systems
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I swear, making entire different sets of ASCII/Unicode for text/lettering was a damn mistake.
This shit. Constantly. Gets. Past. Spam. Filters. =_=
#also heard this kinda ascii code shit trips up some tts systems#just use one standard set of codes that you can turn into diff fonts in HTML/CSS dammit all!#because a lot of systems reading the text doesn't RECOGNIZE wtf those codes /mean/#'a' should be recognized as a damn 'a' across the board - istg#not 'a' but it's a little /spicier/#(this rant is something i see gymrat!lo getting on abt OFTEN)#(this standard sucks ass - and iirc it's thanks to how people saw 'oh we're expanding the ascii table for emojis now?')#(and went 'we can make character sets... but FANCY')#(nevermind fucking breaking spam filtering systems and accessibility tools!)#(nevermind that you can ALREADY customize font type and size with a little bit of HTML tinkering)#(nevermind the style sheet your web page is going for or people who have their own local themes or font library)#(nevermind people who want to idk slap a dyslexia // vis-impaired friendly add-on to make the font more readable to THEM)#(HHHHHh- i have a lot of feelings about this)
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