Xah Unicode blog archive 2012 to 2018
Unicode symbol for X-men ⮿
major update. Added some 100 arrows i missed before.
on iphone and android phone, the arrows don't show. strange, because these are from unicode 7, year 2014.
ribbon arrows
⮰ ⮱ ⮲ ⮳ ⮴ ⮵ ⮶ ⮷
added to Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤
2018-07-02 thanks to https://twitter.com/vladresende/status/1013890682933710848
this utter stupid unicode page
http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/text-style.html
there r 1214 emoji there, and each picture is base64 encoded in the html. the file is 3 mega bytes. removing them, the file is 153k
unicode 11 is out
Spaceship CUNEIFORM
༕ ༖ ឱ ឲ
Chinese Chess Pieces in Unicode 11
🩠 🩡 🩢 🩣 🩤 🩥 🩦
🩧 🩨 🩩 🩪 🩫 🩬 🩭
Father Christmas, not Santa Claus?
instead of Santa Claus, the unicode calls it Father Christmas.
🎄 🎅 🤶 ⿅ 𐂂 🦌
see Unicode Search
so why Unicode call Santa Claus as Father Christmas? Wikipedia has history
but be warned it probably contains biased writing.
this Wikipedia from 2005 gives a easier to follow picture of history of Father Christmas
quote:
Father Christmas is a name used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and several other Commonwealth Countries, as well as Ireland, for the gift bringing figure of Christmas or yuletide. Although Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus (the latter deriving from the Dutch for Saint Nicholas: Sinterklaas), are now used interchangeably, the origins of Father Christmas are quite different.
Dating back to Norse mythology, Father Christmas has his roots in Paganism. Before Christianity came to British shores it was customary for an elder man from the community to dress in furs and visit each dwelling[citation needed]. At each house, in the guise of "Old Winter" he would be plied with food and drink before moving on to the next. It was thought he carried the spirit of the winter with him, and that the winter would be kind to anyone hospitable to Old Winter. The custom was still kept in Medieval England, and after a decline during the Commonwealth, became widespread again during the Restoration period. A book dating from the time of the Commonwealth, The Vindication of CHRISTMAS or, His Twelve Yeares' Observations upon the Times involved Father Christmas advocating a merry, alcoholic Christmas and casting aspersions on the charitable motives of the ruling Puritans.
He was neither a gift bringer nor was he associated with children. During the Victorian era when Santa Claus arrived from America he was merged with “Old Winter”, “Old Christmas” or “Old Father Christmas” to create Father Christmas, the British Santa which survives today.
Unicode Navigational Pointers
◄ ► ◅ ▻
☚ ☛ ☜ ☝ ☞ ☟
👆 👇 👈 👉
🔙 🔚 🔛 🔜 🔝
These are new in Unicode 6 i think. If it doesn't display, get the font, see: Unicode 6 Emoticons and Supporting Fonts. For many other arrows, see: Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤
Unicode wave
- U+223F: SINE WAVE ∿
- U+301C: WAVE DASH 〜
- U+3030: WAVY DASH 〰
- U+2307: WAVY LINE ⌇
- U+FE4B: WAVY OVERLINE ﹋
- U+FE4C: DOUBLE WAVY OVERLINE ﹌
learned a few Unicode symbols related to functional programing.
- U+2394: SOFTWARE-FUNCTION SYMBOL⎔
thanks to [François-René Rideau https://plus.google.com/108564127390615114635/posts]