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My pet peeve is U+A66E (CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O, ꙮ) [0], a glyph that had literally been used once only in history by a 15-century scribe before making it
by nathell 5y ago
My pet peeve is U+A66E (CYRILLIC LETTER MULTIOCULAR O, ꙮ) [0], a glyph that had literally been used once only in history by a 15-century scribe before making its way into Unicode. And when it did, the reference rendering (7-eyed) is different from the one originally used by that scribe (10-eyed).
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O
- dragonwriter 5y ago> a glyph that had literally been used once only in history by a 15-century scribe before making its way into Unicode. Your Wikipedia article says “certain manuscripts”, not a single use. (It does say it is only ever used in one specific phrase, though,)
- nathell 5y agoThat plural seems to be an addition of the Wikipedia editors. If you look at Karsky 1979 (page 197), there’s just one known manuscript that exhibits the phrase: > Любопытно очное о в слове многоочитїи в псалтыри XV века Тр.-Серг. л. No 308, где о состоит из десяти Ꙩ, соединенных в виде орнамента
- tata71 5y agoAnyone have a curated list of cool Unicode shapes?
- dotancohen 5y agoThe Unicode symbol preceding the topic of discussion, "Cyrillic letter Double Monocular O", has a rather suggestive shape: ꙭ Everywhere I look something reminds me of her...
- dotancohen 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5OQMoSCrqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5OQMoSCrqw
- klyrs 5y agoThey better have an i with a heart replacing the dot...
- jfk13 5y agoYou may be looking for https://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n258a-heartdot.pdf https://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/n258a-heartd...
- malermeister 5y agoIt's even funnier, the one use of the multi-ocular o was in a text referring to many-eyed (i.e. multi-ocular) seraphims. Sounds like the only documented use was a visual pun from 600 years ago.
- Macha 5y agoThere's also plenty of "ghost" kanji which first appeared in a dictionary with no evidence for use and some which have been positively identified to a single source as a mistaken/sloppy handwritten attempt at a different real kanji character.
- sdenton4 5y agowell, that's definitely going into all my future Call of Cthlhu games whenever a shꙮggꙮth is mentioned...
- kingcharles 5y agoOh god, I'm going to be using double monocular O everywhere now. I'm watching you... ꙭ
- hoseja 5y agoYou mean... binocular?