{"id":28009,"date":"2021-01-21T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=28009"},"modified":"2021-01-20T21:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T02:24:54","slug":"some-kind-of-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/01\/some-kind-of-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Some kind of record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to add this.<\/p>\n<p>Rendering the <a href=\"https:\/\/culture.pl\/en\/article\/the-9-most-unpronounceable-words-in-polish\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">name<\/a> of the model from today&#8217;s Profile post was slightly tricky, given that many of the language&#8217;s letters don&#8217;t appear in the standard English\/Latin character set. I was up to the challenge of course, but while writing the post (yes, they&#8217;re written and not randomly generated,) I have to note that my computer&#8217;s spellcheck routine was more active than usual. Here&#8217;s a screenshot<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LottaTypos.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot of post showing spellcheck selections\" width=\"550\" height=\"106\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28010\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The model&#8217;s name receives not one, but <em>four<\/em> separate red tags indicating spelling unrecognized by the internal dictionary, though a lot of that has to do with the HTML Unicode character tags that were required to render the name correctly. Those always start with an ampersand [&#38;] and end with a semi-colon [;], which tells HTML-rendering programs like web browsers what to display when the &#8216;regular&#8217; character sets don&#8217;t contain the right bits. I use them every time I put down degrees [&#176;] or copyright or trademark symbols [&#169;, &#8482;] so I have a collection of common ones in a  note file with my bloggy stuff. If I want to tell you or <em>show<\/em> you how to use them, however, I have to use even more of them just to say that the symbols for ampersand and &#8216;hashtag&#8217;\/pound\/octothorpe [&#35;] are, &#8220;&#38;&#35;38&#8221; and &#8220;&#38;&#35;35,&#8221; which when typed look like &#8220;&#38;&#35;38;&#38;&#35;35;38&#8221; in the WordPress editor, and typing <em>that<\/em> out to display made it even worse (and took me three tries.) You follow?<\/p>\n<p>Most times, I simply refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/ascii.cl\/htmlcodes.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> for the more common diacritical and pronunciation marks, but for the preceding post I had to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/charsets\/ref_utf_latin_extended_a.asp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> instead. The most common pronunciation marks however, such as &#8220;\u00e9,&#8221; can often just be copied from your own computer&#8217;s character map, buried someplace in the accessory menus. It&#8217;s this esoteric knowledge (and the willingness to spend way too much time for a simple visual) that allows me to bring you such posts as <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2010\/11\/thats-not-supposed-to-be-there\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/01\/tagginses-we-hates-it-forever\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a><strong>;<\/strong> It&#8217;s what makes this blog what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to add this. Rendering the name of the model from today&#8217;s Profile post was slightly tricky, given that many of the language&#8217;s letters don&#8217;t appear in the standard English\/Latin character set. I was up to the challenge of course, but while writing the post (yes, they&#8217;re written and not randomly generated,) I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[5885],"class_list":["post-28009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-random","tag-ill-let-you-fill-in-what-that-is"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}