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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by masklinn on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:51AM (#11959293)
> Unless it's a symbol one uses in a sentence

"To start the device, press the ⏻ button on the device face"

There, used in a sentence.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by Scea91 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:07AM (#11959345)
"Good morning, that's a nice tnetennba" (Source: https://youtu.be/49UakIHb1yI)
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by Bromskloss on Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:27AM (#11959933)
I'm not sure. It sounds like we would then have to include every possible image.
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by coldtea on Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:54AM (#11960065)
The above is real text used in countless device manuals.

"Every possible image" (e.g. an elephant icon in running text) is not.

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