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[-] houndeyes@toast.ooo 61 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Multiocular O," eh?

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

[-] occhionaut@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago
[-] kspatlas@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago
[-] Thelie@sh.itjust.works 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For the lazy:

∫‍⚧

∫‍🇸🇦

ꙮ‍⚧

∫‍∫‍ꙮ

Edit: I did this knowing full-well that it won't render in any way like in the post. Unicode is not magic, folx! The font still needs to handle this random string of bits. I'm sorry to have disillusioned a few of you… 😬

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 3 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

[-] Thelie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 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.

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 39 points 3 months ago
[-] renzev@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago
[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago
[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Ya like jazz?

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 32 points 3 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.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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. At least for me, ꙮ shows up with just seven eyes.

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 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.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 3 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.

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I have absolutely no idea about Chinese or Japanese characters, but if they did that there's probably a technical reason like retro compatibility or something. Unicode has free space left for millions or billions of characters.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Unicode has free space left for millions or billions of characters.

I might be wrong, but isn't unicode essentially unlimited? Like, they're just assigning numbers (codepoints) to individual characters. Any limitation would come from encodings like utf-8, no?

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

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

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

Man made horrors beyond belief

[-] PixelAlchemist@lemmy.world 14 points 3 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.

[-] cornshark@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago
[-] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 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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