Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F) • Hacker News Board

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by samwillis » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:49 AM UTC

It makes typesetting easer, pretty genius really! /s

We're going to see a trend of companies using Unicode characters for their logo now aren't we?...

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by spread_love » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:49 AM UTC

mkl wrote: post #24

masukomi wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

He (or a company of his) has had the x.com domain for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

No, it changed ownership many times since 1999.

> On July 5 2017, Musk repurchased the domain name X.com from PayPal

They even took a little jab at him when it happened

> "We are delighted to sell the domain x.com back to its previous owner"

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by reneberlin » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:50 AM UTC

Also the game: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by Zambyte » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:53 AM UTC

GaggiX wrote: post #17

I use this X character in my name on Telegram, now everyone will think I'm an Elon stan.

Just change your name to the Twitter bird

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by gjvc » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:54 AM UTC

marmitesmuggler wrote: post #6

Strongly reminds me of the X11 logo (one of my favourite designs).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System yup

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by calderknight » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:54 AM UTC

voxadam wrote: post #14

CodeCompost wrote: post #4

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

i presume x.com or site:x.com will get the trick done

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by gpderetta » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:54 AM UTC

phkahler wrote: post #29

isodev wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The character is used by another famous piece of software for what, 40 years? https://x.org/wiki/

But X windows is dead or dying. Oh, so is Twitter?

I expect that 𝕏11 will survive twitter.

edit: using proper typography.

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by dietrichepp » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:55 AM UTC

masukomi wrote: post #20

dietrichepp wrote: post #10

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 “quotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for “field”). 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.

The bird is a lot more recognizable, no? Maybe even beautiful?

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by Zambyte » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:55 AM UTC

albybisy wrote: post #11

so it can't be copyrighted.

Logos never could be. You're thinking of trademark.

Re: Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

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Post by ulfw » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 11:56 AM UTC

superhumanuser wrote: post #23

yaakov34 wrote: post #21

Can someone explain what we are talking about here? Something having to do with Musk's son's name?

Twitter is rebranding to X.

$44,000,000,000 well spent