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February 2, 2012 6:26 PM   Subscribe

Homer Simpson famously said that the Germans have a word for everything. Unicode is rapidly becoming its character-encoding equivalent.
posted by stannate (13 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is confusing and you need to make it make more sense if it's going to be a MeFi posts that is more than a Simpsons reference and a link to a Unicode character. -- jessamyn



 
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posted by Jibuzaemon at 6:29 PM on February 2, 2012


IF ONLY THERE WAS A CHERMAN WORD FOR PLEASURE EXPERIENCED AT SOMEONE ELSE'S MISFORTUNE

/community
posted by Sebmojo at 6:31 PM on February 2, 2012 [2 favorites]


Homer also said the French don't even have a word for 'victory'. So his linguistic knowledge is potentially suspect.
posted by Dark Messiah at 6:34 PM on February 2, 2012


I would kill for a numpad to test this right now.
posted by Tehhund at 6:40 PM on February 2, 2012


You need a font that supports this character to even have a hope of seeing it correctly in the browser.

What are you waiting for, fontsmiths? GET ON IT!
posted by Golfhaus at 6:42 PM on February 2, 2012


Treaty of Westphalia, anyone? Perhaps some recipes? I know the mods always look forward to it.
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posted by leotrotsky at 6:44 PM on February 2, 2012 [4 favorites]


That's a Steve Martin quip, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong.

"Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything!"

Previously.
posted by phenylphenol at 6:46 PM on February 2, 2012


You need a font that supports this character to even have a hope of seeing it correctly in the browser.

apt-cache search font dog poo returns nothing, which is bull💩
posted by DU at 6:47 PM on February 2, 2012 [2 favorites]


One day letters will be mostly obsolete and will only be used by old people and academics who talk about abstract ideas. As of jan 2012 there are over 100k Unicode code points assigned to graphics characters, and we still have over 800k code points left unassigned. Want to see them all? Download the 90 mb PDF from here.

BTW: the pile of poo shows up fine on my iPad, it has little googlie eyes and is smiling!
posted by Ad hominem at 6:54 PM on February 2, 2012



posted by Sys Rq at 6:54 PM on February 2, 2012


I say to your 💩.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 6:55 PM on February 2, 2012


That's a Steve Martin quip, I believe. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Correct it was Steve Martin - who also told us about the 86 year old singing teacher that wanted a young student to "sing from her diaphragm"

But that's another story.
posted by mattoxic at 6:55 PM on February 2, 2012


Little known fact: the emoji character on the iPhone/iPad for pile of poo was reused for the snake and the ice cream emojis too.
posted by schwa at 6:56 PM on February 2, 2012


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