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Surprisingly many characters in Unicode are only recorded a few times if not once before the assignment. Chinese characters for example have a lot of them, beca

Surprisingly many characters in Unicode are only recorded a few times if not once before the assignment. Chinese characters for example have a lot of them, because it was relatively frequent to make a new character for newborns before the modernity and some of them have survived through literatures but otherwise seen no uses (e.g. 𡸫 U+21E2B only appears once in the Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志). But they have still received code points because they are considered essential for digitaization of historical works, and multiocular O is no different.

Stamp01 4y ago
I didn't realize that digitization of all historical works was the goal of unicode. There's plenty of space for everything. And only a few fonts out there aim for complete coverage, like noto. I just don't have the personal fortitude to attempt something so grandiose. Seems like a fool's errand. Also, keep in mind there's not just one multiocular O. There's a bunch with varying numbers of eyes.
- db48x 4y ago
  Not every goal needs to be something you can accomplish in a day or a year or even one lifetime. There are not quite 8000 spoken languages on Earth at the moment, and a lot of them are from cultures that never invented writing. SIL has sent a missionary to most of them to learn the language, invent a writing system for it, teach it to them, and translate the New Testament into it. Most of those are fairly standard alphabets using characters from the Latin scripts, plus perhaps a few new characters or new combinations of character and diacritical. The task is large, but finite.