[HN Gopher] Shapecatcher - Find Unicode characters by drawing
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       Shapecatcher - Find Unicode characters by drawing
        
       Author : diggan
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2025-01-18 15:15 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (shapecatcher.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (shapecatcher.com)
        
       | lovegrenoble wrote:
       | very approximate...
        
       | michaelmior wrote:
       | This reminds me of Detexify for LaTeX. Very cool! Worked well
       | with the one symbol I tried :)
       | 
       | https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
        
       | ubj wrote:
       | This looks great! The Detexify web app [1] does something similar
       | for LaTeX notation and has been incredibly helpful. Looking
       | forward to using Shapecatcher!
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       | [1]: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
        
       | GauntletWizard wrote:
       | It worked for zero of the Hangul characters I tried, either from
       | the syllables set or the Jamo composition block.
       | 
       | My Korean handwriting leaves a lot to be desired, especially on
       | the phone, but it did suggest several similar katakana, so I'm
       | surprised by the omission
        
         | adzm wrote:
         | It says this:
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         | > Currently, there are 11817 unicode character glyphs in the
         | database. Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters are currently
         | not supported.
        
           | bmalum wrote:
           | well does also not work for most of the ones I tried without
           | those. Do you get "pi" to work?
        
         | bmalum wrote:
         | try the pi p - does also not work. Far off tbh
        
       | stevage wrote:
       | This has been around forever, right? I seem to remember using it
       | like 15 years ago.
        
       | infocollector wrote:
       | Bug fix request: On the webpage
       | (https://shapecatcher.com/unicodefonts.html) - the download links
       | for the fonts is broken. Perhaps fix? Also, does it make sense to
       | combine the OTF files into a single file that shows the match you
       | make instead of having it broken down into multiple files?
        
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