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Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated

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Post by tempodox »

jerf wrote: post #11

When my kids were young, I accidentally flubbed the pronunciation of "Santa Claus" once and said something that sounded a lot like "Centiclops", which I decided to roll with. Centiclops is a lot like a cyclops with one eye, except the as a reading of the roots clearly indicates, this is a creature with 100 eyes. Today I learn that Centiclops effectively has a Unicode character. As Centiclops' representative in the wo…

“Santa Clause” would translate to “holy clause”. There might be such a thing but I think you meant Santa Claus :)

Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated

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Post by dtparr »

tempodox wrote: post #21
jerf wrote: post #11

When my kids were young, I accidentally flubbed the pronunciation of "Santa Claus" once and said something that sounded a lot like "Centiclops", which I decided to roll with. Centiclops is a lot like a cyclops with one eye, except the as a reading of the roots clearly indicates, this is a creature with 100 eyes. Today I learn that Centiclops effectively has a Unicode character. As Centiclops' representative in the wo…

“Santa Clause” would translate to “holy clause”. There might be such a thing but I think you meant Santa Claus :)

Maybe just a big fan of the Tim Allen movie?

Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated

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Post by jerf »

tempodox wrote: post #21
jerf wrote: post #11

When my kids were young, I accidentally flubbed the pronunciation of "Santa Claus" once and said something that sounded a lot like "Centiclops", which I decided to roll with. Centiclops is a lot like a cyclops with one eye, except the as a reading of the roots clearly indicates, this is a creature with 100 eyes. Today I learn that Centiclops effectively has a Unicode character. As Centiclops' representative in the wo…

“Santa Clause” would translate to “holy clause”. There might be such a thing but I think you meant Santa Claus :)

My fingers love adding the e's on the end of any worde that can conceivably take them. Also have that problem with any word that can take an "ly" even if I don't meanly it.

Fixed, thanks.

Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated

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Post by dafoex »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #20

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There's an emoji for handgun, but Apple and other big tech decided it needed to be a water gun. There is also a rifle character intended to represent the sport of shooting in a pentathlon, but again Apple threw its weight around and, while the character became codified in Unicode, it never became an emoji and no font from big tech supports it.

Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated

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Post by koboll »

etamponi wrote: post #4

By 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

Honestly it probably deserves the Pluto treatment: decertification as a character. One historical use in the 1400s doesn't merit a character and never did.
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