fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyz • 1 month agoI shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.imagemessage-square5 fedilinkarrow-up1113
arrow-up1113imageI shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyz • 1 month agomessage-square5 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareDokPsy@infosec.pubhexbear28·1 month agoI'm flipping between "why is there cuneiform Unicode" and "of course there's cuneiform Unicode" much more rapidly than I really expected linkfedilink
minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.dehexbear23·1 month agocuneiform isnt even that weird, check out the multiocular O ꙮ this was only used once in a single cyrillic manuscript to spell "many-eyed seraphim" linkfedilink
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eehexbear5·1 month agoAnd the version of it most apps use doesn't even have enough eyes. The original text (and the updated since Unicode) has 10-eyed O, while most places display 7. Old Cyrillic texts are pretty wild. linkfedilink
minus-squareblackbrook@mander.xyzhexbear2·1 month agoIt's kind of infuriating that with trouble having been taken defining this single use character, people don't bother to render it correctly. linkfedilink
I'm flipping between "why is there cuneiform Unicode" and "of course there's cuneiform Unicode" much more rapidly than I really expected
cuneiform isnt even that weird,
check out the multiocular O ꙮ
this was only used once in a single cyrillic manuscript to spell "many-eyed seraphim"
And the version of it most apps use doesn't even have enough eyes. The original text (and the updated since Unicode) has 10-eyed O, while most places display 7. Old Cyrillic texts are pretty wild.
It's kind of infuriating that with trouble having been taken defining this single use character, people don't bother to render it correctly.