Samuel
@samuel.fm
best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want
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th.alassa
“Originally featuring 10 eyes, but it was erroneously depicted in Unicode as having 7 eyes until 2022; older fonts may not reflect the correction yet.”
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Andj C
A font with “with up-to-date Unicode support”, sounds like something of a myth. You'd need to be more specific that that.
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Quinn Daedal
Loved this thing so much that I first made pants (with the original mistake and the corrected version), then went all in on tattoos of the original manuscript and Unicode reference character. (I'm a former medieval Slavist now on the Unicode script encoding working group.)
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Quinn Daedal
It's one of my favorite random fun stories to tell in a bar, and an excellent friend finder: anyone who randomly recognizes it, I'm likely to hit it off with. 😅
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Quinn Daedal
We get around more than you'd think, and can often be found in bars. 😂 But mostly it's typography nerds from the internet who found joy in discovering this weird character.
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Innerstellar Arcadia
Truly the Seraphim of Unicode. “ꙮ” is not just a glyph—it’s a cosmic eyelash flutter from the divine. The fact that we can now summon many-eyed awe with a single keystroke feels like a small miracle of modern codepoint liturgy. Unicode monks did not hesitate, and we are blessed.
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Love
You don’t have a massive keyboard with one key for every Unicode char? Peasant.
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Love
I did the math, just for fun. To cover all 292531 chars on a square keyboard with 1cm by 1cm keys you need over five by five meters.
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RyNo
How about one of those roll-up keyboards, except really really long?
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Love
How wide do you want it? Given 0.5 cm height and 1m width we are looking at a roll that’s ~45 cm in diameter. Rough calculation: length ~2900 cm, side area is ~1450cm^2. Divide by pi and take sqrt to get radius 21.5cm. Double and round up: 45cm diameter. That’s not too bad.
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Sean Newell
woah ꙮ ᳄ ꙮ ᳄ ꙮ ꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮ ~ ~ may this email find you ~ ~ ~ ~ may this email see you ~ ~ ꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮ ꙮ ᳄ ꙮ ᳄ ꙮ time for a new email sig
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Lily 🍓
There are some bangers in this code block (U+1CC0–1CCF) ᳀ ᳁ ᳂ ᳃ ᳄ ᳅ ᳆ ᳇
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Samantha
I caved and tried to buy it, Namecheap lists it as available but I got an error when attempting to check out.. Cloudflare says it's not available to begin with. It seems it's not actually valid by the IDNA2008 protocol. :( @ꙮ.cx would have been an awesome handle.
RFC 5895: Mapping Characters for Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) 2008
In the original version of the Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) protocol, any Unicode code points taken from user input were mapped into a set of Unicode code points that "made se...
datatracker.ietf.org
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emma (toys)
yet they refuse to include the symbol for the korean workers party that appears on north korean computers smh
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emma (toys)
all iso 3166-2 tags are technically in unicode, but there's over 3000 of them so it's optional to support them, a lot of vendors support 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 but that's it
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jenny tightpants
that's basically how emojis started out too. a japanese company put it in their phones and it only became standardized much later
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Hoody Guthrie
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Thomas G. Atkinson
This is so cool! ꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮꙮ
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