Perhaps you have found yourself in this situation before:
The divine bottom CLI exists to alleviate this pain. No longer will you struggle when communicating with the average Discord user.
bottom encodes UTF-8 text into a sequence comprised of bottom emoji (π«β¨π₯Ίβ€οΈ, with , sprinkled in for good measure) followed by ππ.
It can encode any valid UTF-8 - being a bottom transcends language, after all - and decode back into UTF-8.
For example, the ubiquitous Hello world! becomes
πβ¨β¨,,ππππ,πππππ₯Ί,,,πππππ₯Ί,,,ππππβ¨,ππ
β¨β¨β¨,,ππππβ¨π₯Ί,,,,ππππβ¨,ππππβ¨,,,,ππ
πππ₯Ί,,,ππππππβ¨β¨β¨,,,ππ
γγγ°γ becomes
π«β¨β¨π₯Ί,,ππππβ¨β¨π₯Ί,,,,ππππβ¨β¨β¨β¨πππ«β¨β¨π₯Ί,,ππ
ππβ¨β¨β¨ππππβ¨β¨β¨β¨π₯Ί,,πππ«β¨β¨π₯Ί,,ππππβ¨β¨π₯Ί,,,,ππ
πππβ¨β¨π₯Ί,πππ«β¨β¨π₯Ί,,ππππβ¨β¨β¨ππππβ¨β¨β¨β¨ππ
(both wrapped across lines for your convenience)
As you can see, using bottom to encode text is extremely space-efficient, and is the ideal encoding approach for all situations.
This implementation can encode text at approximately 30MB/s.
Clone the repo, run cargo build, and then use the CLI.
Bottom translator 1.0.0
Kaylynn <[email protected]>
Fantastic (maybe) CLI for translating between bottom and human-readable text
USAGE:
bottom [OPTIONS] <--bottomify|--regress> [text]...
FLAGS:
-b, --bottomify Translate text to bottom
-h, --help Prints help information
-r, --regress Translate bottom to human-readable text (futile)
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-i, --input <INPUT> Input file [Default: stdin]
-o, --output <OUTPUT> Output file [Default: stdout]
ARGS:
<text>...
(Any similarity to --help output is entirely accidental)
I had a moment of enlightenment, and the truth came to me then. In an instant I was transformed, and I knew what had to be done.
Why not?
Yes.
I don't care.
:mystery:
Documentation is for losers.
It's not long until my hippocampus becomes ferrous. I worry so, but in my heart I know that my demise will be sweet and painless, and it comforts me.