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by Suppafly 774 days ago
Monks having a laugh by making the Os in the word for eye look like eyes, and now we have unicode support for that, amazing.
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Ꙩ, Ꚙ, Ꙭ and ꙮ are definitely underutilized as emojis...

I'm finding it kind of hard to take the Unicode approval process serious though, when we have to use complicated multi-codepoint escape sequences to produce a simple country flag because character codes are supposedly a limited resource now and can't be assigned nilly-willy - yet an inside joke some medieval monk made like 600 years ago positively HAS to be encoded as its own character...

Quoting from Wikipedia, "серафими многоꙮчитїй" (serafimi mnogoočitii, "many-eyed seraphim")

Biblically accurate cyrillic O character.