Copy paste other fonts into Steam - Technical explanation wanted

[Flash✪Gordon]

Copy paste different fonts from notepad into Steam does not work but with this generator you can copy paste fonts into Steam chat and forum.

𝓐 𝓫 𝓬 𝓭 𝓮 𝓯 𝓰 𝓱 𝓲 𝓳 𝓴 𝓵 𝓶 𝓷 𝓸 𝓹 𝓺 𝓻 𝓼 𝓽 𝓾 𝓿 𝔀 𝔁 𝔂 𝔃
𝖆 𝖇 𝖈 𝖉 𝖊 𝖋 𝖌 𝖍 𝖎 𝖏 𝖐 𝖑 𝖒 𝖓 𝖔 𝖕 𝖖 𝖗 𝖘 𝖙 𝖚 𝖛 𝖜 𝖝 𝖞 𝖟
𝔞 𝔟 𝔠 𝔡 𝔢 𝔣 𝔤 𝔥 𝔦 𝔧 𝔨 𝔩 𝔪 𝔫 𝔬 𝔭 𝔮 𝔯 𝔰 𝔱 𝔲 𝔳 𝔴 𝔵 𝔶 𝔷
𝕒 𝕓 𝕔 𝕕 𝕖 𝕗 𝕘 𝕙 𝕚 𝕛 𝕜 𝕝 𝕞 𝕟 𝕠 𝕡 𝕢 𝕣 𝕤 𝕥 𝕦 𝕧 𝕨 𝕩 𝕪 𝕫

https://lingojam.com/FancyTextGenerator

My question is why does it not work to copy paste fonts from notepad into Steam and why does it work to copy paste fonts from this website into Steam?

[76561198218426745]

rather than generating fancy fonts, this converter creates fancy symbols.

From the linked site.

[Flash✪Gordon]

Originally posted by habitualaction:

rather than generating fancy fonts, this converter creates fancy symbols.

From the linked site.

What is a symbol?
What is the difference between a font and a symbol, in informatic terms?
How are both related to ASCII code resp. unicode?

[76561198218426745]

A symbol is part of a font, the same way a letter or number is. Thus you are not changing the font Steam uses, you are just copying and pasting a symbol used in that font.

[Flash✪Gordon]

Originally posted by habitualaction:

A symbol is part of a font, the same way a letter or number is. Thus you are not changing the font Steam uses, you are just copying and pasting a symbol used in that font.

This is not really understandable for me.

I figured out that you can insert ASCII chars into Steam. But why can I create with this website for instance cursive letters and Steam does accept it? It is certainly not part of the ASCII table.

Can I see somewhere a complete list of "things" that I can use in Steam?

And additonal question:
Why do the special "symbols" and special ASCII chars need more "space" than normal letters?
(the more special symbols I use the shorter my Steam name can be)

[76561198218426745]

They are not creating cursive letters, they are combining symbols that create the appearance of letters. The reason why they take more space is because multiple symbols are being used to represent a single letter.

[Flash✪Gordon]

Originally posted by habitualaction:

They are not creating cursive letters, they are combining symbols that create the appearance of letters. The reason why they take more space is because multiple symbols are being used to represent a single letter.

when you say symbol do you mean "dot". So you need fifty or hundert dots to create a letter or symbol?
Though the text of special symbols is not 50 times shorter than normal text length.

[Flash✪Gordon]

>>you are just copying and pasting a symbol used in that font<<
please explain

[76561198218426745]

No, not dots. It's possible to combine multiple symbols to create the appearance of something else. The easiest way to see what symbols exist for a given font is to use Windows character map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_Map_(Windows)

[Flash✪Gordon]

No way man...

The graphics displayed on the right side of the website you just linked - the character map - shows the ASCII code. No way tha these alphabets were created with ASCII chars.

𝓐 𝓫 𝓬 𝓭 𝓮 𝓯 𝓰 𝓱 𝓲 𝓳 𝓴 𝓵 𝓶 𝓷 𝓸 𝓹 𝓺 𝓻 𝓼 𝓽 𝓾 𝓿 𝔀 𝔁 𝔂 𝔃
𝖆 𝖇 𝖈 𝖉 𝖊 𝖋 𝖌 𝖍 𝖎 𝖏 𝖐 𝖑 𝖒 𝖓 𝖔 𝖕 𝖖 𝖗 𝖘 𝖙 𝖚 𝖛 𝖜 𝖝 𝖞 𝖟
𝔞 𝔟 𝔠 𝔡 𝔢 𝔣 𝔤 𝔥 𝔦 𝔧 𝔨 𝔩 𝔪 𝔫 𝔬 𝔭 𝔮 𝔯 𝔰 𝔱 𝔲 𝔳 𝔴 𝔵 𝔶 𝔷
𝕒 𝕓 𝕔 𝕕 𝕖 𝕗 𝕘 𝕙 𝕚 𝕛 𝕜 𝕝 𝕞 𝕟 𝕠 𝕡 𝕢 𝕣 𝕤 𝕥 𝕦 𝕧 𝕨 𝕩 𝕪 𝕫

[76561198218426745]

The web site provides more information on how it creates the text.

Amongst the hundreds of thousands of symbols which are in the unicode text specifications are certain characters which resemble, or are variations of the alphabet and other keyword symbols. For example, if we can take the word "hello" and convert its characters into the fancy letters "𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔" which are a set of unicode symbols.

You can do much stranger things.
https://lingojam.com/CreepyZalgoTextGenerator

[Flash✪Gordon]

A ascii char needs usually 8 bits.

If I look up unicode I see 256 chars.

Never heared of unicode consisting of hundert of thousands of chars.
They would need around 16 - 32 bits for each.

But in other words:
Do you say that Steam is using this hunderthousands-unicode-char-set so I can write anything that is in that set?

Can I see somewhere the whole set?

[76561198218426745]

With due respect, it would be better to ask the creator of the web site how they create the text. They should be able to answer your questions much more clearly than anyone on Steam.

[Flash✪Gordon]

Originally posted by habitualaction:

With due respect, it would be better to ask the creator of the web site how they create the text. They should be able to answer your questions much more clearly than anyone on Steam.

this is a good idea.

though among the many steam users are certainly a lot of coders.

I will try both ways.

[😼Studio Cat😼]

Okay. Let me see if I can explain this.

The fancy text that site generates only uses symbols scattered through Unicode, and associates them with letters. The do not count as letters. 𝕾𝕷𝖆𝖗𝖌𝖞𝖞 𝖇𝖑𝖚𝖗𝖕 𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖌𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖑. See that? That is gibberish, and yet your spell checker won't notice it, because it is a symbol and no more a letter than 😾.

The fonts you use on your PC do not have an equivalent in Unicode. When you copy and paste them over, Unicode reads A, and displays the same A everyone else gets. It does this to resolve conflicts that used to exist between systems using a variety of fonts not being able to communicate. Unicode, or in other words ONE code/One Symbol.