👉 Okay, settle in closely, class. Letâs tackle something that frankly, nobody asked for, and I suspect most of you wouldnât even recognise unless a very technically inept millennial shoved a printout in your face. We're here to dissect the rather⌠specific⌠bit of jargon called:
"Character Map.">!âŚâđś).â!!(â âYou read that right. 36,840 individual typographical monstrosities crammed into a single, frankly terrifying, little window on your old-people PC. (Okay, maybe you youngsters have fancy touchscreens now but the underlying concept remains stubbornly archaic.) Now, what exactly is this thing? Essentially, a Character Map is essentially a digital rolodĘâexcept instead of holding a depressing amount of unused postage stamps and a half-smoked cigar, itâs full of⌠crap. Letters! Symbols! Dingbats that look suspiciously like rejected 80's video game characters. Think of the early days of your operating system: you needed that weird, almost exclusively Cyrillic looking letter in the middle of a badly formatted email to prove you were actually...existing. That was probably a Character Map. The point is. Itâs there for when you absolutely must display something nobody else has ever seen before â and then immediately regret doing so. Essentially, it's a fallback for when your text editor just can't handle the frankly
