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yarper on March 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode

I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name ... - by Aditya Mukerjee on March 17th, 2015

What is the glyph missing from this?

I know its not ideal but some uncommon glyphs have always been omitted from charsets, for example ASCII never included http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86, and it was replaced by "ae" in common language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

fixermark on March 17, 2015 [–]

This is also why we've (almost) all taken to writing résumé as resume.

We've even managed to build text-based search engines that do a pretty decent job of guessing which one we mean.

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