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[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

shakes fist in anger π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•

[–] DokPsy@infosec.pub 79 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

I'm flipping between "why is there cuneiform Unicode" and "of course there's cuneiform Unicode" much more rapidly than I really expected

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, most dead scripts have Unicode, specifically because how the hell would you write academic papers about them in this day and age otherwise? Even old Irish Ogham:

αš…αš–αš™αš—

The line is a convention, because ogham was originally written on the corner of a stone stela.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

αš›αš‘αšŒαš†αšαš‹αš€αš”αš„αš€αšαšƒαš“αš„αš‘αš‹αš“αšœ

Ogham is awesome

I've used it for cryptic languages in TTRPGs before, alongside a few other runic scripts like α›–α›šα›žα›–αš±α›«αš αš’αš¦οΈαš¨αš±αš².

My favorite is Gallifreyan, which doesn't have unicode, is far too niche and homebrewed to have unicode, and how the hell would unicode even work?

Gallifreyan

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