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"- the spectre of communism. All the powers of old encoding have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre..."

• schoen 1mo ago
  Well, Communism made it into Unicode (U+262D). I tried to show it here but it gets stripped.
  • eviks 1mo ago
    Figures, it's a capitalist website after all...
    • pocksuppet 1mo ago
      YOU SEEM TO BE ABLE TO ALSO TYPE IN LOWERCASE BUT FOR SOME REASon i can't never mind i pressed caps lock everything is better now
  • somat 1mo ago
    I have it it in my .XCompose as <Multi_key> <c> <c> <c> <p> : "\xe2\x98\xad" #symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers Never used, but I laugh every time I see it there. As a slightly related tangent, The compose key mnemonic interface for rarely used characters is pretty great, beats trying to remember alt codes.
    • mjg59 1mo ago
      Originally added to the upstream compose map in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/f052665394f3f0319e93a98f1d5d4ea287e1dd07 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/f052..., and replaced in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/merge_requests/112 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/merge_reque.... Given the people involved in the initial commit, I suspect (but do not have an absolute memory of) it may have been influenced by my ownership of (insert a hammer and sickle symbol here).net.