Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
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Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#2I love this character and I love the fact that is being updated. Just to get this right: at some point some person chose to doodle the letter instead of writing it the correct way and now we have a corresponding Unicode character? Sort of amazing and it also makes you think ...
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#3(┛ꙮДꙮ)┛彡┻━┻
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#4By the same reasoning, the 7-eyed O has now been used more than once, so it deserves a glyph! So the right way to do this is to introduce a new character for the correct glyph, and also leave the current one (perhaps changing the title). Otherwise these tweets won't make when read by someone that updated to Unicode 15.0
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#5So it's a Unicode character that represents a... blob with 10 eyes?
Hordes of Wizards of the Coast lawyers getting ready for the big fight
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#6By the same reasoning, the 7-eyed O has now been used more than once, so it deserves a glyph! So the right way to do this is to introduce a new character for the correct glyph, and also leave the current one (perhaps changing the title). Otherwise these tweets won't make when read by someone that updated to Unicode 15.0
My thought as well
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#7Too bad I have to adjust my business cards for ꙮ.world
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#8By the same reasoning, the 7-eyed O has now been used more than once, so it deserves a glyph! So the right way to do this is to introduce a new character for the correct glyph, and also leave the current one (perhaps changing the title). Otherwise these tweets won't make when read by someone that updated to Unicode 15.0
Unicode basic rule is that character definitions never ever change, even when enumerated erroneously.
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#9I love this character and I love the fact that is being updated. Just to get this right: at some point some person chose to doodle the letter instead of writing it the correct way and now we have a corresponding Unicode character? Sort of amazing and it also makes you think ...
There was a... "tradition" is a strong word, perhaps "trend" is better. Authors making copies of the Bible or related works in Cyrillic, that the letter O (equivalent to Roman O) at the beginning of the word for "eye" would be stylized to look like an eye. There are a variety of glyphs along these lines: Ꙩ, Ꙫ, Ꙭ. All of them, including ꙮ, were added to Unicode as a single group.
The glyph "ꙮ" was used to refer to an Angel with a whole buncha eyeballs, as one does. In terms of texts that survive today, this specific glyph has exactly one use in a single manuscript from the 1400's. It might have been used more, in texts which don't survive. But it is part of a larger trend, and I bet that its inclusion in Unicode depends strongly on that.
But yeah, in itself the ꙮ character exists solely so that modern computers are capable of a more-faithful rendition of the transcription of a single handwritten copy of the Book of Psalms.
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#10Wait a minute, how will we refer to the old glyph in the future? Once this is updated the articles such as this one will have the new shape.