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U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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Post by TameAntelope »

technothrasher wrote: post #38
slowmotiony wrote: post #14

I remember back in the day we used to find publicly exposed Windows FTP servers, create new folders using some messed up unicode characters and upload pirated games and movies there to share with each other. The only way to open those directories was to specifically type the exact path in unicode, simply double clicking on the folder in filezilla or windows explorer resulted in a error. Sometimes the admins themselve…

I remember the days of people beginning to abuse ftp sites, all us admins shutting down our writable ftp upload folders, and thinking, "this is why we can't have nice things." It was the beginning of the end of the early, friendly internet.

The fact you believed it would last is proof we still can have nice things. :)

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Post by GavinMcG »

hardware2win wrote: post #117
adrusi wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's like saying it's naive and irresponsible to gooutside without locking your front door when you live in a tiny remote village with 40 other people you've known for your whole life.

Not really, in your example theres no way any1 appears and even if he does, then your friends protect ur stuff Meanwhile internet aint remote village

Point is it used to be

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Post by GavinMcG »

Someone wrote: post #91

I would think something like this: | | \ | \ | \ /\ | \/ \ | \ | _\/ | +——————————————— Could (more or less) fit that description and would make more sense as a symbol. Something like it even made it into Unicode ( https://emojipedia.org/chart-decreasing/ )

That to me immediately communicates a decreasing chart. I would have no idea that the right-angle lines represent right angles generally and not chart axes.

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Post by speed_spread »

rcarmo wrote: post #77
bamboozled wrote: post #7

These unicode characters feel like they were given to us from an alien species or something. How did it we end up with so many characters of unknown origin? I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project. (I still have no idea, nor can supply an example of the symbol in use.) […] it is the case that ISO 9573-13 existed long before eit…

I suspect there's an entire alien alphabet (like Marain, for instance) in there someplace. There was a proposal to stuff Klingon into the Private Use Area, at least...

If you're willing to use a discontinuous subset you could probably find close enough glyphs to make a full Marain. Ordering would be messed up and require a lookup table though.

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Post by MauranKilom »

cheschire wrote: post #10

The name itself sounds like it should be a graph of a downward trend line on a graph. I’m guessing the person who implemented it got this exact requirement wording in the Unicode definition and nothing else, didn’t make the logical connection, and just implemented it as close to literally as they could.

But if I read the article correctly, this glyph comes from a set of math symbols. I don't think "stock goes down" was ever used in any mathematical script.

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Post by mbauman »

firstcommentyo wrote: post #98

Dislosure: I'm not directly from the fields of the Sciences Of Angles And Ambiguously Crossing Lines nor I've every seen or used this symbol before. However to me it's, pretty evidently, supposed to be a "no right angle" symbol. (A) It's in the math section, (B) it's with angles, (C) the thunderbolt ↯ is commonly used for "not" or more specifically for dis-proof in this area and (D) at least by my 30 s internet searc…

That doesn't jive with the history in TFA — the Unicode name and location was inferred from the symbol itself without knowledge of its meaning.

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Post by totetsu »

technothrasher wrote: post #38
slowmotiony wrote: post #14

I remember back in the day we used to find publicly exposed Windows FTP servers, create new folders using some messed up unicode characters and upload pirated games and movies there to share with each other. The only way to open those directories was to specifically type the exact path in unicode, simply double clicking on the folder in filezilla or windows explorer resulted in a error. Sometimes the admins themselve…

I remember the days of people beginning to abuse ftp sites, all us admins shutting down our writable ftp upload folders, and thinking, "this is why we can't have nice things." It was the beginning of the end of the early, friendly internet.

Wearz were very nice things.

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Post by Kon-Peki »

yawz wrote: post #64
jorvi wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes people should be able to do nice things without it getting abused, no? In The Netherlands, in the nicer neighborhoods we have something called a ‘buurtbieb’ aka a ‘neighborhood libraries’, which is a weatherproof cabinet where people can put surplus books that other people in the neighborhood can borrow. Of course you could take all the books or use the cabinet to store candy, but why would you?

Great to hear these little neighborhood libraries are international. We have them here where I live in Colorado, US.

Indeed. The zoning code for my town specifically calls them out (as allowed, with no permits necessary).

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Post by JKCalhoun »

bamboozled wrote: post #7

These unicode characters feel like they were given to us from an alien species or something. How did it we end up with so many characters of unknown origin? I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project. (I still have no idea, nor can supply an example of the symbol in use.) […] it is the case that ISO 9573-13 existed long before eit…

I assumed W.A.S.T.E. were behind them.

(Might need to add this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_of_Lot_49)

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Post by giraffe_lady »

primer42 wrote: post #74

So Unicode has all these mysterious characters... but I would bet that it's still true that many people on the planet speaking common languages can't even type their name... This post is from 2015, and I'd love to know if unicode has added better support for non-English languages since then. https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of... Based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_(Unicode_block)…

That publication was so good, I was really bummed when they shut down. Looks like they came back for a minute in 2020? I had no idea but I know what I'm doing tonight.
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