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Jimmy Lefevre explains how to build a text box
Original: How to make a text box: A crash course in Unicode and OpenType - Jimmy Lefevre, BSC 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
A talk by Jimmy Lefevre, titled 'How to make a text box: A crash course in Unicode and OpenType', presented at BSC 2026, is circulating among programmers and graphics enthusiasts. It walks through the surprisingly complex engineering behind rendering text, covering Unicode encoding and OpenType font shaping, and is being shared as a clear technical introduction to a topic many developers take for granted.
Why now: Programmers find text rendering a deceptively hard problem, and the talk offers an accessible deep dive.
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- How to make a text box: A crash course in Unicode and OpenType - Jimmy Lefevre, BSC 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tr0ty9-yeQ # Programming # Graphics # Unicode · lobsters@robot.villas · 2
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