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Using Linux here, seems totally ordinary to me. EDIT: Though I really don't understand why a lot of these characters even exist. I mean, what is that? The sun?
by unimpressive 13y ago
Using Linux here, seems totally ordinary to me.
EDIT: Though I really don't understand why a lot of these characters even exist. I mean, what is that? The sun?
EDIT2: When I pasted into DuckDuckGo it actually told me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub_el_Hizb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub_el_Hizb
- qatrix 13y agoTry Windows.
- unimpressive 13y agoI was just pointing out that a lot of this behavior probably is caused by quirks in windows character handling as opposed to any intrinsic strangeness of the character itself. FWIW, copy pasting it into google does invert the justification of the search bar text.
- yossilac 13y agoOn a mac, so can't verify - but if it's an Arabic character, seems plausible that Windows just shifts to right-to-left mode, which can sometimes cause some quirks when trying to delete the first/last character, etc.
- ahazred8ta 13y agoYes, it's an Arabic-script symbol used as a chapter marker. U+06DE (it's a star made of two interlocking squares) ¶ ‡ ☛ ❦ ☚ ❖