it the reason why you can post in any imaginable writing system from ancient sumerian complaints in cuneiform 𒂍𒀀 𒈾𒍢𒅕 to the goddamn seraphim o ꙮ that was used exactly once in a single 15century manuscript.
its also the reason you can post emojis nearly anywhere.
Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
What is this wizardry?
Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
😂😂😂 the wonders of unicode / utf-8
it the reason why you can post in any imaginable writing system from ancient sumerian complaints in cuneiform 𒂍𒀀 𒈾𒍢𒅕 to the goddamn seraphim o ꙮ that was used exactly once in a single 15century manuscript.
its also the reason you can post emojis nearly anywhere.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yeah, UTF-8 is great, but ASCII had a character that made a sound.
__dev@lemmy.world 3 months ago
BEL is alive and well in unicode: unicodeplus.com/U+0007
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m intrigued. Do elaborate.
robotica@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The first 127 or 255 characters of UTF-8 are just ASCII if I’m not mistaken, for backwards compatibility with ASCII-based systems
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How dare you write the name of a man who sells inferior copper!
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I love that we have so much type of o-s. These are all different characters:
oоοօ𝜊𝛐𝝄𝝾𝞸
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Similar to how it had every Japanese village name, including some which never existed
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
𓂺
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
𓂺
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 months ago
you dont need the Rosetta stone for this one
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I love how no one has given a precise answer to this question:
…wikipedia.org/…/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_bl…
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Unicode.
Glorious modern ᏕᎮᏋᏝᏝፈᏗᏕᏖᎥᏁᎶ.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
specclisbing?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
spellcasting
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
This is loss
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 3 months ago
Oh, now I get it.