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computator ◴[14 Mar 25 05:05 UTC] No.43359743[source]▶
Just wanted to point out something that not everyone might realize:

Unicode is not supposed to have fonts at all. Unicode defines characters that you can then represent in various fonts. It just so happens that Unicode has many characters that happen to look like the letter "C" (as an example): © for copyright, ℂ for complex numbers (formally called Double-Struck Capital C), etc. The author uses these many variations as a fun way to make "fonts".

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usr1106 ◴[14 Mar 25 06:18 UTC] No.43360060[source]▶
But Unicode is such a historically grown monster that it violates its own rules in many places.
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1. lifthrasiir ◴[14 Mar 25 07:35 UTC] No.43360376[source]▶
Is it? Even emoji---one of the most controversial additions ever---was fully justified for its possible accessibility issue when it was introduced in Unicode.