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Fun fact: this has happened before! > Apple's adaptation of the [⌘] symbol — encoded in Unicode at U+2318 — was derived in part from its use in Nordic countrie
by spiffytech 3y ago
Fun fact: this has happened before!
> Apple's adaptation of the [⌘] symbol — encoded in Unicode at U+2318 — was derived in part from its use in Nordic countries as an indicator of cultural locations and places of interest.
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> She was browsing through a symbol dictionary when she came across the cloverleaf-like symbol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key
- pavlov 3y agoThat’s not really the same thing? It’s not like Apple’s corporate logo was scanned from a Swedish symbol dictionary by some random person who passed it off as their work. Which is effectively what happened to X-Twitter.