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Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

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Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

#12

Does this affect the potential for trademarking the logo?

Absolutely.

They can probably trade mark it for social media (unless someone already has), but are highly unlikely to be able to trademark it broadly, which clearly is the intention.

Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

#14

Ah so that's how we're supposed to Google for tweets now. "𝕏 something something".

𝕏 (U+1D54F) decomposes[0] to X (U+0058) meaning that if you search for 𝕏 your search string will likely be automatically converted to the equivalent X.

Of course, while a search engine could conceivably index and search the entire Unicode codespace internet wide, such a task would likely be somewhat unrealistic and provide only limited upside.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence

Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

#19

This is for math. In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for β€œquotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for β€œfield”). This explains why many of the letters in thi…

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Re: Unicode Character β€œπ•β€ (U+1D54F)

#20

This is for math. In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for β€œquotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for β€œfield”). This explains why many of the letters in thi…

because elon renamed twitter to "x corp", bought the x.com domain and shoved this character on it.
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