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		baltimore on Sept 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated Is there any end to this? E.g., why not include Galileo's pictograms of Saturn as seen here: https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

caf on Sept 20, 2022 [–]

Galileo's pictograms aren't being used as a letter, though: they're explicitly a diagram (I believe he says "like this: <picture>").

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