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Yeah, it's great fun to put a cyrillic "а" into a variable name in code.

Russian government officials are obliged to put all their purchases on the online tender platform.

So they are using this trick (but in the opposite direction, latin `a` instead of cyrillic `а`) to avoid undesired competitors from entering those biddings and lowering the purchase prices (and not paying kickbacks, obviously). https://navalny-en.livejournal.com/52565.html

Huh. I'm really surprised there isn't a Russian clone of tender already.

or having your variable names in _𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗 which might be more appearent but none the less annoying. That'd make a nice useless language though.

  𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖈 𝖛𝖔𝖎𝖉[] 𝖒𝖆𝖎𝖓(𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖌[] 𝖆𝖗𝖌𝖘) {
    𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖊.𝖂𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖊𝕷𝖎𝖓𝖊("𝕳𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔 𝖂𝖊𝖑𝖙");  
  }
  // 𝕽𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖓𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖕𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖊 "𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖐𝖙𝖚𝖗" 𝕰𝖎𝖓𝖘 𝕻𝖚𝖓𝖐𝖙 𝕹𝖚𝖑𝖑 𝕹𝖚𝖑𝖑

OMG, yes:

    # 𝕲𝖊𝖒ä𝖘𝖘 𝕽𝖊𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖘𝖆𝖚𝖘𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖚𝖘𝖘 𝖋ü𝖗 𝕬𝖑𝖌𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖍𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖊 𝕬𝖗𝖇𝖊𝖎𝖙 

    𝖐𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖊 𝕭𝖊𝖌𝖗ü𝖘𝖘𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖒𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖒𝖚𝖘: 
        𝖉𝖊𝖋 __𝖆𝖓𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖓__(𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖇𝖘𝖙, 𝖁𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊): 
            𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖇𝖘𝖙.𝖁𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊 = 𝖁𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊

        𝖉𝖊𝖋 __𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖓𝖚𝖗__(𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖇𝖘𝖙): 
            𝖟𝖚𝖗ü𝖈𝖐𝖌𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖓 𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖇𝖘𝖙.𝖁𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊 

        𝖉𝖊𝖋 𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖗ü𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖓(𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖇𝖘𝖙, 𝖁𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊=𝕹𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖙𝖊𝖝𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖟): 
            𝖉𝖗𝖚𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖓("𝕲𝖚𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝕿𝖆𝖌, " + 𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖇𝖘𝖙.𝖁𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊)
            𝖟𝖚𝖗ü𝖈𝖐𝖌𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖓 𝖘𝖊𝖑𝖇𝖘𝖙

    𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖗ü𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖗 = 𝕭𝖊𝖌𝖗ü𝖘𝖘𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖒𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖒𝖚𝖘("𝕳𝖆𝖓𝖘-𝕻𝖊𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍" )
    𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖗ü𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖗.𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖗ü𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖓()

I've always found that attempts at germanization of subjects where English is the lingua franca are incredibly amusing. Further germanization of German words, such as the conversion of "Nase" to "𝕲𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖙𝖘𝖟𝖎𝖓𝖐𝖊𝖓" also is at least worth a chuckle despite the solemn background that spawned the movement.

  𝕹𝖊𝖚𝖎𝖌𝖐𝖊𝖎𝖙𝖘𝖇𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖙 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖚𝖓𝖐𝖔𝖓𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓 𝕽𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖓𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖚𝖗𝖊 | 𝕹𝖊𝖚𝖊𝖘 | 𝕶𝖔𝖓𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖓 | 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖊 | 𝕱𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖚𝖓𝖌 | 𝕭𝖊𝖗𝖚𝖋𝖘𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖘𝖆𝖇𝖙𝖊𝖎𝖑𝖚𝖓𝖌 | 𝕰𝖎𝖓𝖗𝖊𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖊

𝕹𝖊𝖚𝖎𝖌𝖐𝖊𝖎𝖙𝖘𝖇𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖙 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖚𝖓𝖐𝖔𝖓𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖓 𝕽𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖓𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖎𝖊𝖚𝖗𝖊 is seriously epic.

>"Nase" to "𝕲𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖙𝖘𝖟𝖎𝖓𝖐𝖊𝖓"

Which is bullshit and just a parody on linguistic purism.

I could write more, but i have to configure the Zuwachssicherung of my Klapprechner over DFÜ.

This is now my favorite code snippet. I didn't have one before. Love "Begrüssungsanzeigebedienmechanismus" and the hopelessly verbose way it was implemented.

I just remembered the snippet forgot "Sehr geehrte Herr oder Frau". Oh no! -1 bureaucracy point.

OH NEIN! MEIN LEBEN! :(

Google translate doesn't seem to do well with those characters ... could someone please help with "𝕭𝖊𝖌𝖗ü𝖘𝖘𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖒𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖒𝖚𝖘".

German for: Spend the best hours of the day on an orange website.

basically showWelcome()

Literally it means: Greeting-Display-Control-Mechanism. In German you can jumble the words together to get a new, more precise German word. The most notorious being this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/100...

Or this: http://linguacuriosa.blogspot.com/2009/10/german-for-beginne...

Mother of god...

More like this is totally freaking Awesome...!

That would be Gottesmutter or (way better) Gottesgebärerin (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottesgeb%C3%A4rerin)

Or this: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html

I remember my German teacher struggling to get the class to remember Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (admittedly two words). So she taught us Vierwaldstätterseedampfschiffgesellschaftskapitänsmützensternlein instead. After that Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte was easy.

Too bad the source code of that beautiful toy is nowhere to be found - I'd gladly provide a patch that teaches it about the umlauts which it unfortunately left alone in your piece of art you created here <3

It's trivial to dump the tables at least. Just enter all printable ascii characters :). The umlauts would be by first fully decomposing the string down to letters+combining characters, right?

𝕭𝖊𝖌𝖗𝖚̈𝖘𝖘𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖘𝖆𝖓𝖟𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖉𝖎𝖊𝖓𝖒𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖘𝖒𝖚𝖘

Right :). Though it's not quite centred for me.

I have a tool to make this text, though I'll admit I never even thought about decomposing inputs like ü and then recomposing them after Fraktur-izing.

http://mar.cx/unicate/ or https://github.com/afiler/unicate

𝕬𝖈𝖍𝖙𝖚𝖓𝖌! 𝕬𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖘 𝕷𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖐𝖊𝖊𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘!

𝔇𝔞𝔰 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔦𝔰𝔱 𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔱 𝔣𝔲𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔢𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯𝔭𝔬𝔨𝔢𝔫 𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔪𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔟𝔢𝔫. ℑ𝔰𝔱 𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔶 𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔫𝔞𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔫𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔨, 𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔫𝔣𝔲𝔰𝔢𝔫 𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔬𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔫𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔨𝔢𝔫 𝔪𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔱𝔽𝔢𝔫𝔰𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔢𝔫. ℑ𝔰𝔱 𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔱 𝔣𝔲𝔢𝔯 𝔤𝔢𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔨𝔢𝔫 𝔟𝔢𝔦 𝔡𝔞𝔰 𝔡𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔨𝔬𝔭𝔣𝔢𝔫. 𝔇𝔞𝔰 𝔯𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔫 𝔰𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔱𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫 𝔨𝔢𝔢𝔭𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔞𝔰 𝔠𝔬𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔫-𝔭𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔫 𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔦𝔫 𝔡𝔞𝔰 𝔭𝔬𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔱𝔰 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔰; 𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔞𝔵𝔢𝔫 𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔴𝔞𝔱𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔫 𝔡𝔞𝔰 𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔨𝔢𝔫𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔱𝔢𝔫.

    .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌,.𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖇𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊,.𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖗{𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖙: ''; 𝖉𝖎𝖘𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖞: 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖈𝖐; 𝖜𝖎𝖉𝖙𝖍:100𝖕𝖝; 𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙: 20𝖕𝖝;}
    .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌{𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉: #000; 𝖕𝖆𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌-𝖙𝖔𝖕: 20𝖕𝖝}
    .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖇𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊{𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉: #𝖋00; }
    .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖗{𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉:#𝖋𝖋0}

(https://twitter.com/nickheer/status/535129309531635712)

    .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌,.𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖇𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊,.𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖗{𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖙: ''; 𝖉𝖎𝖘𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖞: 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖈𝖐; 𝖜𝖎𝖉𝖙𝖍:100𝖕𝖝; 𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙: 20𝖕𝖝;}
    .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌{𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉: #000; 𝖕𝖆𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌-𝖙𝖔𝖕: 20𝖕𝖝}
    .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖇𝖊𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖊{𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉: #𝖋𝖋𝖋; }
    .𝖋𝖑𝖆𝖌:𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖗{𝖇𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉:#𝖋00}

wouldn't this be more appropriate?

I am inspired and will immediately switch to Fraktur for all my Fortran and COBOL code!

Oh.

This somehow reminded me of this one, in pseudo-Old Church Slavonic: http://lurkmore.so/images/d/d6/Pravoslavnii_koding.jpg

Sad thing is, Unicode still doesn't seem to properly support titlos and (not so sad, since personally I think Unicode shouldn't really do anything with fonts unless absolutely necessary) has no separate characters for Ustav and Poluustav scripts.

Oh it can get much much worse... have a look at greek questionmark: "[...] canonically decomposes to U+003B ; semicolon making the marks identical in practice." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Greek_question_ma...

Oh that is awesome! I wonder if Java uses it as a semi-colon too?

I have only tested it with javescript, which gave a syntax error.

If you happen to use cyrillic in your source code (for comments or even strings) and constantly switch between latin and cyrillic, then this actually happens with а "c" letter, because both latin and cyrillic "c" occupy the same button. And that's not fun, btw.

Depends on which keyboard layout you use, of course.

Russian is my first language, but English is my primary language, and I never had my chance to practice typing using the standard Russian keyboard layout, so I almost always use the "Phonetic" layout - where the latin c is the cyrillic ц. (Also, w is ш, and who the hell remembers what []\-= map to - always trial and error for me to find южэьъ.)

Well Python 2 "protects" you from silly things like that and throws a syntax error.

  In [4]: class АnotherClass():
     ...:     pass
    File "<ipython-input-4-ad6e67ea5e19>", line 1
      class АnotherClass():
            ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Add a file encoding directive[1] at the begining of your file, and you can shoot at as many of your feet as you want.

[1] PEP 0263: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/

In Python 2 that only works within string literals, though.

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