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Unicode surprises

Robin Michael

Poking around in the Unicode libraries and stumbled across an unbelievably complicated glyph that is actually a single character. The character in question is a ligature of an Arabic character.

This: ﷽

The above is a compressed single input character of the phrase باسم الله الرحمٰن الرَّحِيم which roughly translates to In The Name Of Allah The Most Merciful The Most Gracious

Also found some cuneiform glpyhs. A dead language that hasn't been used in thousands of years. Amazing that Unicode is comprehensive and complete to present this as a valid writing system in my opinion.

These:  𒁏, 𒀰

I do not know what the above symbols mean, but they look cool

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