That profile picture made the article much more hilarious.
Unicode Dicks
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#42is there a range of unicode vaginas, you know, for, erm, balance?
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#43On a more serious note: > And for those of you on Windows with a censored font Anyone know how to resolve this? I think Mark Twain would deem me capable of chewing steak...
interesting PM meeting they had. Or following Carlin - "3 dirty hieroglyphs you cant see".
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most common use is probably as a determinative. Ancient Egyptian, much like many Semitic languages, omits the vowels in a word in writing. Determinatives are ideograms that disambiguate between several words with the same consonants but different meanings. That's an interesting fact. As someone with no knowledge of how languages are formed it makes me wonder why have a written language that purposefully omits vow…
> no knowledge of how languages are formed I recommend reading this article. The problem he is solving is representing text in ASCII. For example an e with an accent can be replaced with a plain e. But what about languages not using the base Roman alphabet? You get a fascinating tour of Divehi and the final result - the unidecode module - works rather well. http://interglacial.com/tpj/22/
> "I am rather sure, however, that it cannot be done with a mere regular expression, and that is not something I say lightly!"
This sounds like a challenge.
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#45I was hoping an HN reader would be able to comment on what the purpose of the middle (𓂹) symbol is. Anyone? Googling the symbol hasn't provided any leads.
Sign D52A is a monogram combining sign D52 (transliteration: mt, phallus) and sign S29 (transliteration: s, folded cloth). It is read smt or smt(r). Possible translations, depending on context include the verbs to hear, to examine, to bear witness to, or to inquire.
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#46> And for those of you on Windows with a censored font (what a thing!) this is what they look like.
I've never heard about censored fonts, but I am on Windows and these indeed do not work. How do I fix that?
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#47On my mac os Mojave, those glyph do not show up (aka, they show up as square boxes).
Anybody else experiencing this on mac os mojave or is it something wrong on my end?
edit: they don't show up in chrome and won't work in slack, they do work in iMessage.
edit2: safari happily displays them
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#49is there a range of unicode vaginas, you know, for, erm, balance?
No, but continuing on with Egyptian body part hieroglyphs, there is Gardner sign D27, Unicode U+13091.
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#50I'm disappointed the article doesn't also point out that there are also egyptian hieroglyphic characters for breasts.