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by danohuiginn 1880 days ago

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)

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Thanks, I hate it.

Page 46 (Figure 42): http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3194.pdf

It'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."
The binocular o is the unofficial IPA symbol for the nasal-ingressive voiceless velar trill.
Namely, a snore noise, because the character looks like a pig's snout?
This 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

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