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My favorite Unicode glyph is Multiocular O (ꙮ). There is only one recorded usage, by a 15th century russian monk, who decided to use it in phrase “many-eyed ser
by shantara 4y ago
My favorite Unicode glyph is Multiocular O (ꙮ). There is only one recorded usage, by a 15th century russian monk, who decided to use it in phrase “many-eyed seraphim” instead of two regular letters ‘o’. So of course it was added to Unicode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O
- lmkg 4y agoIt gets better: this glyph is bugged. Somehow, the guy responsible for adding it to Unicode somehow got the number of eyes wrong. Per his description, Unicode fonts represent it with 7 eyes, but after getting called out on Twitter he realized the original manuscript shows 10 eyes. This bug will be fixed in Unicode 15.
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y agoAchieving peak Byzantium there, I guess.
- corrral 4y agoWhat about modern uses of the character that specifically intended 7 eyes? Unicode needs to add a time or (worse, but probably OK) version datum to glyphs or glyph ranges, I suppose (applying it only at the document level wouldn't suffice, as in the case of quoting).
- kzrdude 4y agoGoing to the release note pdf, it will "expand" to 10 eyes by adding one more to the end of each horizontal row (if people are curious).
- shadowofneptune 4y agoThis one has sat in the back of my head for a long time. I wonder if any of the little ligatures or strange letter variations people write today could be preserved in the same way, or if the shorthand systems could be.