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ꙮ Meet 'multi-ocular o'. This is the fever-dream of some 15th-century Russian scribe. He was writing about 'many-eyed seraphim', and decided that no ordinary O
by danohuiginn 5y ago
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Meet 'multi-ocular o'. This is the fever-dream of some 15th-century Russian scribe. He was writing about 'many-eyed seraphim', and decided that no ordinary O could do justice to them. Somehow, his doodle found its way into unicode.
For the more sedate eye-lovers, there is also Ꙩ (monocular o), and Ꙫ (binocular o)
- nathancahill 5y agoThanks, I hate it. Page 46 (Figure 42): http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3194.pdf http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3194.pdf
- ectopod 5y agoIt's horrible but effective. It doesn't really work as a normal size letter though. Perhaps someone could add a note to font designers in the Unicode spec: "This glyph is intended to be three times larger than a regular O."
- gpvos 5y agoThe binocular o is the unofficial IPA symbol for the nasal-ingressive voiceless velar trill.
- legerdemain 5y agoNamely, a snore noise, because the character looks like a pig's snout?
- vsareto 5y ago(ꙮ‿ꙮ)
- robertk 5y ago*_ꙮ
- grose 5y agoThis is the coolest thing I've seen today. I've been working on a game rendered using xterm.js† and this would be perfect for an enemy. † https://kawaiisolutions.itch.io/bitesize-tactics https://kawaiisolutions.itch.io/bitesize-tactics
- nullc 5y agohttps://twitter.com/mindspillage/status/1378822963017879554 https://twitter.com/mindspillage/status/1378822963017879554