Who knew Unicode was so versatile?

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• houndeyes@toast.ooo ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Multiocular O,” eh?

  I know a Half-Life Houndeye when I see one.

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  • occhionaut@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WRRR WRRRRRRRRRRR

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    • kspatlas@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      brrruuummm

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• Thelie@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For the lazy:

  ∫‍⚧

  ∫‍🇸🇦

  ꙮ‍⚧

  ∫‍∫‍ꙮ

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  • nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    unfortunately tricks like these are highly dependent on the way text is rendered, i found a wonderful circle character that made for great eye outlines for my nickname, rendered fine on my phone but awful on pc. shame cos it really was perfect
    rip cute nickname :'3

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    • Thelie@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Damn that would have been nice. The big circles are a nice alternative, though. ;)

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  • VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me ZWJ is not working on Eternity, Firefox and Chrome, on top of that the gender symbol is not recognised in Chrome.

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  • Amir@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not working on Sync, Android 14, Pixel 7 :(

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• metaStatic@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  be not afraid

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  • renzev@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ꙮωꙮ whats this?

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    • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bee not afraid?

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• MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t Multiocular o the letter that as been used literally once, and yet we decided to include it in Unicode. But the original implementation had to many circles meaning we had a letter that has been used literally once and we fucked up in copying it.

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  • renzev@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep, exactly. After someone pointed it out on twitter, unicode consortium updated the standard to increase the number of eyes to the correct number (10), but so far I haven’t seen a single font that actually implemented the change.

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The purpose of Unicode is to be able to represent everything humans have written. Doesn’t matter if correct or not.

    There are some Chinese characters that appear only once in written text, but they happen to be just typos of copying other text. They exist in Unicode.

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    • renzev@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With all of those obscure characters that they keep on adding, you’d think they’d have the decency to have separate sets for japanese and chinese characters. But nope, those are all lumped together into the CJK Unified Ideographs block. Whether a character shows up chinese-style or japanese-style depends on the font.

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    • MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s correct. The mistake made was making an error while transcribing the same symbol into Unicode

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• fossphi@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man made horrors beyond belief

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• PixelAlchemist@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can somebody paste these as text into the comments? I’m on mobile but would love to send some of these characters to a friend with zero context.

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• cornshark@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_O_variants#Multi…

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• gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I met an angel the other day, but I couldn’t keep the stare.

  (also i didn’t really know which eyes to look into to hold eye contact)

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