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Does anyone know the history of why these were added? Some of them clearly look like copyrighted characters from specific games, space invaders and PAC MAN in
by CJefferson 2y ago
Does anyone know the history of why these were added?
Some of them clearly look like copyrighted characters from specific games, space invaders and PAC MAN in particular.
- nemomarx 2y agoI notice that the pac man example has a little tail or something on the opposite end from the mouth, so that seems like it might just dodge the copyright / IP?
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- ThatPlayer 2y agoThe text description for it isn't pac man, but snake head. So I'm thinking it's more for a snake game sprite than pac man. With a solid block for the body, the "tail" to connect the head so you don't have a floating head.
- rbits 2y agoI don't see anything that looks like a tail. It's just a circle with a quarter triangle taken out.
- lmpdev 2y agoNah the meat of it is the pixel patterns below those You could conceivably combine them to create any sprite
- lifthrasiir 2y agoAll Unicode characters have their associated proposals [1] [2] which you can check them directly. In particular, some copyrighted characters that can't be made generic enough are indeed omitted, and everything else have received generic character names based on their appearances. [1] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21234-terminals-smalltalk.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21234-terminals-smalltalk.p... [2] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235r-terminals-supplement.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235r-terminals-supplement...