Unicode Test

[foxgrrl]

OMG there's a ⚧ symbol in Unicode now; And stuff…

ༀ༁༂༃༄༅༆༇༈༉༊།༎༏༐༑༒༓༔༕༖༗༘
༚ ༚ ༛ ༜ ༝ ༞ ༟ ༘༠
༠༡༢༣༤༥༦༧༨༩༪༫༬༭༮༯ ༶ ༸ ༺༻༼༽ཀཁགགྷ࿂࿃࿇࿈࿉࿉࿊࿋࿌ ࿐ ࿑྿
ᏇᏈᏉᏊᏍᏏᏁᏑᏐᏠᏡᏨᏪᏩᏬᏯᏱᏰᏳᏄᎦᎯᎥ
ɐɓɕɖɚɟɠɣɧɨɬɮɯɲɵɸɹɻʁʂʆʈʉʋʌʍʎʑʓʝʢʥʬѬȵȸȶȡ
℥ℑℜ℞ℨℭ⅋⅄ↂ※⁂⁘⁙⁜‰‱⁇‼
₴₮₪₥₡₱₲₵₠₫₯₭ɆɃɇ⅊
♲ ⚤ ⚢ ⚣ ⚥ ⚦ ⚧ ⚨ ⚩ ⚲ ⚡ ♿ ♬ ♀ ♂ ☿

Comments

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

pretty!

and astrology symbols too!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

⚤ ⚢ ⚣ ⚥ ⚦ ⚧ ⚨ ⚩ ⚲

Awesome.

There's a lot of crazy stuff in the cold frozen wastes of the high bits of Unicode. There's even an unofficial codepage for Seuss' On Beyond Zebra glyphs.

[kengr]

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Klingon.html

Been around for *years*

[kengr]

First 4 rows aren't available in the font I'm using. What font are you using?

[parmonster.livejournal.com]

U+26A7 MALE WITH STROKE AND MALE AND FEMALE SIGN has been around since Unicode revision 4.1.0 (March 2005)

[parmonster.livejournal.com]

Technically that's just part of the low Private Use Area ( U+E000 - U+F8FF ), but yes... it is fun to play with...

If there's anything you can't see, I recommend grabbing the Code 2000 font, it's quite extensive...

[databeast.livejournal.com]

yeah same here, and I've got every unicode font, every codepage, that's available in the Debian/Ubuntu repositories installed.

[heinousbitca.livejournal.com]

somehow i think MALE WITH STROKE is just too amusing of a symbol name.

i want an international symbol for "whatever" and one for "none of the above" so i can answer almost every question with one character.

[parmonster.livejournal.com]

somehow i think MALE WITH STROKE is just too amusing of a symbol name

Then I really shouldn't point out:

U+26A9 ⚩ HORIZONTAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN

i want an international symbol for "whatever"

I usually go for U+2603 ☃ SNOWMAN when I want to convey that sentiment...

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

But, what is it supposed to mean?

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Same here; I'm on my netbook running a mostly-stock ubuntu-eee.

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

Aww, not showing on this computer...

[lux-the-dog.livejournal.com]

Gender, schmender. That's the unicode for 0:50:30 (or 12:50:30).

[cobaltie.livejournal.com]

Wow, there's some really cool stuff there. All of them but like, one or two actually show up on my mac.

[mikeys.livejournal.com]

...and who could forget http://www.☃.com?

[foxgrrl]

What font are you using?

It's the default fonts which come with OS X 10.5.5 (running Firefox 3.0.4).

[foxgrrl]

There's also Tengwar (links to more info on Tengwar) and Cirth; Klingon, Ferengi, and Aiha. There's even mappings for glyphs only used in the Ultima series of games. (See ConScript Unicode Registry)

The official Unicode standard has recently added stuff like Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Rongorongo (Eastern Island), Aztec Pictograms, Tengwar, Cirth, Rumi numerals, Linear B, Ancient Byzantine Musical Symbols, and Mahjong Tiles to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

[databeast.livejournal.com]

Bloody early adopters, confusing everything for us old fogeys!

Seriously, weird though.

[kengr]

Cool.

[kengr]

Ah. Not much use to someone using Win2k then. :-)

What does it all mean?

[(Anonymous)]

According to the Unicode character database:

 = lesbianism

 = male homosexuality

 = bisexuality

 = transgendered sexuality
 = hermaphrodite (in entomology)

 = transgendered sexuality

 = transgendered sexuality

 = ferrous iron sulphate (alchemy and older chemistry)

 = magnesium (alchemy and older chemistry)

 = asexuality, sexless, genderless
 = engaged, betrothed
 * base for male or female sign
...

...

and our candidate for "whatever":

 * audible lip smack

Re: What does it all mean?

[davidsarah.livejournal.com]

Forgot to log in.

-- David-Sarah

Re: What does it all mean?

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

So, is that "audible lip smack" an inhalation noise or an exhalation noise?

(And thanks for the key!)

Re: What does it all mean?

[davidsarah.livejournal.com]

Apparently neither. It is an airless minor mechanism ..., by either opening or closing the lips.

So for example: start with your lips pressed closed and then open them suddenly without either inhaling or exhaling, producing a popping sound.

Re: What does it all mean?

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. Is browsing the Unicode character database on Christmas morning terribly geeky, do you think? Or just geeky enough? :-)

[arethinn]

Er? I can only see about 50% of this...