> Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
I fear this will lead to a lot of "bug fixes and performance improvements" in Android. /s
Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
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#32When 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…
Or perhaps this character is an accurate representation of a Dekaclops.
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#33Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#34I 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 ...
It does raise interesting questions about what counts as decoration/formatting and what counts as part of the actual text. You could view these ocular O characters as purely decorative (like the fancy first character in a paragraph) but they could also be seem as a quirk of spelling which should be represented in unicode.
But the multiocular O really does seem like one monk got bored one time and did some doodling.
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#35I don't understand why this character needs to exist given that, at least according to the author, it has only been seen once in the wild, and it's semantically identical to another more widely used character.
I'm glad I'm not responsible for unicode. Clearly I have the wrong mindset for it.
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#36So 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
Nah, Beholders have 11 eyes, so we're good here.
I feel like the spelling should be updated to Behꙮlders, or better yet, BehꙨꙮlders, to reflect that (of course, this would only make sense once the glyph update actually hits).
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#37I want to be that person that has so much time on their hand they can afford to waste it on pointless things like this.
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#38I 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…
Thank you for describing the missing context. I couldn't understand why this stylized letter deserved a code point more than the uncountable others. I don't necessarily agree still, but the fact that this character was only unique within a larger trend makes it much more reasonable.
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#39When 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…
Or perhaps this character is an accurate representation of a Dekaclops.
My client finds your proposal offensive and an appropriation of his culture, and also that Dekaclops guy is mean and smells bad and hasn't returned the lawnmower my client lent him even though my client has clearly referred to the need to mow his lawn several times now so he totally doesn't deserve a Unicode character.
Re: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated
#40I 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…
So you are saying that the glyph is now more biblically accurate?