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U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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Post by hiccuphippo »

goto11 wrote: post #53
jason0597 wrote: post #5

I still don't understand why Unicode has all these obscure symbols but they still haven't added all superscript/subscript numbers and letters https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6638471/why-does-the-uni... To quote a reply from the above StackOverflow thread: "So, they added a snowman with snow AND a snowman without snow , so that the weather forecaster of this world can avoid the dull snowflake , but we will never g…

> but they still haven't added all superscript/subscript numbers and letters That would triple the size of Unicode.

They would just need to add one Unicode modifier for superscript and one for subscript like there is for gender and skin color.

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Post by alickz »

yreg wrote: post #82
pwdisswordfish9 wrote: post #2

Someone show him U+29B0 REVERSED EMPTY SET.

Not long ago I found these ≤ U+2264 LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO ⋜ U+22DC EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN ≥ U+2265 GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO ⋝ U+22DD EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN or even ⋚ U+22DA LESS-THAN EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN ⋛ U+22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN

> ⋚ U+22DA LESS-THAN EQUAL TO OR GREATER-THAN

> ⋛ U+22DB GREATER-THAN EQUAL TO OR LESS-THAN

These are very interesting. What would be the use case for these?

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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Post by mbauman »

jason0597 wrote: post #5

I still don't understand why Unicode has all these obscure symbols but they still haven't added all superscript/subscript numbers and letters https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6638471/why-does-the-uni... To quote a reply from the above StackOverflow thread: "So, they added a snowman with snow AND a snowman without snow , so that the weather forecaster of this world can avoid the dull snowflake , but we will never g…

Sign onto the proposal: https://github.com/stevengj/subsuper-proposal

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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Post by db48x »

samatman wrote: post #99
phyzome wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usually called Little Free Libraries in the US. (The name is a little weird, because regular libraries are also free...)

The word "public" in "public library" is load bearing, you can't replace it with "regular", hence your confusion. Private libraries (mine for example) are not free, as in beer or otherwise.

True, though to be fair most people never get to use private libraries. Or they used a library at their University that was technically private, but that gave access to the public as well. Public libraries are ubiquitous and very normal, while private libraries are the exception.

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Post by boredumb »

jorvi wrote: post #55
vletal wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not get it. Did you have to shut it down? Does not make sense to complain that someone uploaded stuff to a public unprotected writable storage. Wouldn't securing it with a set of credentials suffice?

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?

In Puerto Rico there are quite a few of these on the sidewalk and despite the rains they are generally always stocked with books. There are bars on everyone's windows and doors, but books piled up on the street.

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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Post by zeteo »

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…

> (C) the thunderbolt ↯ is commonly used for "not" or more specifically for dis-proof in this area

Any examples?

Re: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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Post by _haoa »

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…

Right angles have a small box near the vertex which denotes it is a right angle [0].

This symbol doesn't have that box, so I don't think it's a right angle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_angle#/media/File:Right_...

Edit: This merely adds to the confusion, since the name of the glyph contains the words "right angle."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Post by nograpes »

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)…

I was very surprised by your comment and by the article you linked that the name Aditya cannot be represented in Unicode. I think it can be represented: আদিত্য.

I am not a Bengali-speaker, but I am familiar with the class of scripts to which the Bengali script belongs, abugidas. These scripts assume a vowel following every consonant. When two consonants occur one after the other in a word (a consonant cluster), this must be represented specially, because if you just wrote (consonant, consonant) it would be pronounced (consonant, inherent vowel, consonant).

The "ty" in Aditya is one such consonant cluster. The way this cluster is written is ত্য. This is represented as three code points (I think I am messing up the proper terms), one for the "t", one to "join", and one for "y".

Some people think of the special shape that the final "y" as a separate character on its own. In fact, it has it's own name (ya-phalā). I can understand why it would be confusing to see that the ya-phalā can't be typed as its own single character (" ্য"), but it really has to do with a difference in how the input is is implemented and how the person thinks about their own language.

In fact, on the unicode.org site, typing this very character is part of the FAQ for Bengali: https://unicode.org/faq/bengali.html#6

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