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Can someone more clued in to Unicode than I am explain what is going on? Is that thing a combination of UTF-8 code points? Selecting it and searching Wikipedia
by PhantomGremlin 11y ago
Can someone more clued in to Unicode than I am explain what is going on?
Is that thing a combination of UTF-8 code points? Selecting it and searching Wikipedia brings up Prince's page, so something interesting is going on here.
If I dump the hex for the symbol I get:
c6 ac cc b5 cc ac cc 8a
- boological 11y agoUsing Python 3: >>> import unicodedata >>> s='Ƭ̵̬̊ ' >>> list(map(unicodedata.name, s)) ['LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH HOOK', 'COMBINING SHORT STROKE OVERLAY', 'COMBINING CARON BELOW', 'COMBINING RING ABOVE'] The first character Ƭ ('T with hook') is used in some African orthographies. The remaining letters are combining characters; they modify the letter preceding it. The 'short stroke overlay' is intended as a plain-text equivalent to the html s tag. The 'combining caron below' (more properly, a hacek) is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (a notation for transcribing the sounds of languages) to represent the voicing of an otherwise voiceless consonant (as in, d vs t or b vs p). The 'combining ring above' is used in European orthographies, such as Danish (e.g. å). None of these symbols were intended to be used together, but the design of Unicode allows for such creative (ab)uses.