梁海 Liang Hai lianghai

Did you know you can install fonts without elevation?

The catch is that they're only available for the duration of your session. They are, however, available in all apps across the system.

Someone asked about how to do it on Facebook this week, and at first, I just pointed them at the install script for PowerLineFonts which loops through all the fonts in a folder and install them.

I've used this more than a few times to install some fonts, including the PowerLine ones, which are great:

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Concise Unicode character names in JavaScript

J. S. Choi, 2022

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All programmers must manipulate text; JavaScript programmers are no exception. Text manipulation often refers to specific characters, usually by their code points in hexadecimal – or by embedding the characters directly in source code.

	commit 7f2ef9213b3a179d4b39fd921c6affb3d1553053
	Author: Jiang Jiang <[email protected]>
	Date: Sun Apr 28 18:17:50 2013 +0200

	Add decompilation tool for sbix table used in Apple Color Emoji

	diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_s_b_i_x.py b/Lib/fontTools/ttLib/tables/_s_b_i_x.py
	new file mode 100644
	index 0000000..e126440
	--- /dev/null

	// Compile with: clang fallback.m -framework CoreGraphics -framework CoreText -framework Foundation -o fallback
	// Run with: ./fallback "Fallback Font Family" "Text to Typeset"

	#import <ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h>
	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

	int main(int argc, char *argv[])
	{
	if (argc != 3)
	return 0;