From: Shriramana Sharma (samjnaa@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 17 2010 - 07:25:10 CST
It seems people always find a way to make something else out of
something. The "character-based, not glyph-based" Unicode has been
(ab?)used by some imaginative entrepreneurs to create stylistic ways
of writing text.
While I have seen people use the curly ॆ ॊ in Devanagari intended for
*short* O in *Sanskrit* texts where there is NO short O simply because
it looks good, the following Orkut invitation I recently got takes the
cake. A copy-paste:
°ღ•ŚℋÚßℋÁℳ ŚℋÁℛℳÁ●•٠·˙
Uniview gives a very interesting diagnosis:
° 00B0 DEGREE SIGN
ღ 10E6 GEORGIAN LETTER GHAN
• 2022 BULLET
Ś 015A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
ℋ 210B SCRIPT CAPITAL H
Ú 00DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
ß 00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
ℋ 210B SCRIPT CAPITAL H
Á 00C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
ℳ 2133 SCRIPT CAPITAL M
0020 SPACE
Ś 015A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
ℋ 210B SCRIPT CAPITAL H
Á 00C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
ℛ 211B SCRIPT CAPITAL R
ℳ 2133 SCRIPT CAPITAL M
Á 00C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
● 25CF BLACK CIRCLE
• 2022 BULLET
٠ 0660 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO
· 00B7 MIDDLE DOT
˙ 02D9 DOT ABOVE
I must applaud this person -- whoever he/she is (as I really don't
know him/her but somehow got an Orkut invitation by him/her) -- for
their painstaking work and imagination.
And since this Orkut entry is searchable via Google, I hope I'm not
really infringing on privacy or copyright or anything like that. If at
all, it was *my* privacy that *might* be said to be infringed since I
never asked for such an Orkut invitation!
-- Shriramana Sharma.
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