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

Post by bzxcvbn » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 8:58 PM UTC

yakireev wrote: post #108

kadoban wrote: post #107

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For as inclusive as that mission is, it seems weird to me how limited in certain areas unicode is. For instance, people use peach emoji since there isn't one for butt, eggplant since there's no penis, etc. This doesn't contradict the stated goal exactly, but it seems against the spirit of it at least.

One could argue that emoji should have never been added to Unicode in the first place. Peaches and butts are images, pictures, illustrations, whatever - but they are not characters. There's no writing system which has a colored drawing of a peach as a character.

Post by int_19h » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 9:01 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #100

shadowgovt wrote: post #50

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I've even heard emoji referred to as "the carrot that keeps the implementations current." Every time a new version of Unicode is published, a few more emoji are tacked on. It acts as incentive for all the cellphone carriers and such to put the money into updating their implementations, because nobody wants to be the one on the block with the one phone that can't render "Mirror Ball" . (ETA: LOL, Hacker News drops "Mi…

Incidentally, Windows doesn't have the mirror ball. I guess it is a carrot to get me to upgrade to Windows 11, which I am skipping. (The key with Windows is to only use the good versions; XP, 7, 10, ???. Hoping ??? arrives soon ;)

Post by inopinatus » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #98

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…

> Centiclops is a lot like a cyclops with one eye, except th[at] as a reading of the roots clearly indicates, this is a creature with 100 eyes. Not in any normal sense of "roots". Cent is a Latin root meaning 100. ops is a Greek form meaning eye. The -i- indicates that the word is being formed in Latin, and the -cl- is entirely spurious. The original Greek word divides as cycl-ops, not cy-clops.

Post by martyvis » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 9:13 PM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #98

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…

> Centiclops is a lot like a cyclops with one eye, except th[at] as a reading of the roots clearly indicates, this is a creature with 100 eyes. Not in any normal sense of "roots". Cent is a Latin root meaning 100. ops is a Greek form meaning eye. The -i- indicates that the word is being formed in Latin, and the -cl- is entirely spurious. The original Greek word divides as cycl-ops, not cy-clops.

Post by Archelaos » Mon, Sep 19, 2022, 9:24 PM UTC

felix318 wrote: post #84

JohnFen wrote: post #75

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I thought "santa" meant "saint"?

“Santa” means “female saint” in Italian and Spanish. Perhaps the English “santa” came from another language but I always found the name “Santa Claus” just horrible.