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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…
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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?
Usually called Little Free Libraries in the US. (The name is a little weird, because regular libraries are also free...)
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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?
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…
Should we also have slanted, bold, semi-bold, light and underlined versions of every code point? Versions with/without serifs? For monospaced text? Those are all presentational matters. That we have super/subscripts in Unicode in the first place seems to have been just a hack to help terminal emulator software deal with obsolete encodings like ISO-8859-1: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00159-ucsterminal.txt
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Unicode superscript and subscript is not intended for mathematical usages [1]. [1] https://unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html#Pf8
That's a cop out. You could equally say that new emojis shouldn't be added because you should use inline images for those. Or RTL markers shouldn't be added because you should use dedicated text styling for that. There are a ton of places that don't support superscript markup.
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> 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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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?
> And the inclusion of “AMS” in the names of the entity collections likewise remained mysterious. Could this be The American Mathematical Society?
> It appeared in the entity set ISOAMSA, which, regardless of the name, had no connection with the American Mathematical Society.
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1) there's only ~150k unicode values defined. If we assume a signed int for available space, we have 2,147,333,647 of 2,147,483,647 remaining. moreso if the int is unsigned. We're fine. 2) they use values that combine like ligatures to create the variants of values. there isn't a combinatorial explosion because color is a modifier value, and sex, and then the underlying symbol. It's not a unique symbol for each combi…
We can't assume a signed int, as character encodings limit the number of codepoints: "Excluding surrogates and noncharacters leaves 1,111,998 code points available for use." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#:~:text=Excluding%20su...