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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by eesmith on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @10:33AM (#32070555)
Odd. I get:

  "Switzerland".capitalize()
  𝔈ℑ𝔇𝔊𝔈𝔑𝔒𝔖𝔖𝔈𝔑𝔖ℭℌ𝔄𝔉𝔗
Maybe my locale is messed up?
Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by cardiffspaceman on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:18PM (#32072132)
It looks like Fraktur to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by eesmith on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:22PM (#32074513)
Got it in one.
Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by devoutsalsa on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @11:45AM (#32071604)
Are you in china? That looks like Canton-ese.
Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by eesmith on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @03:54PM (#32074845)
It's a thread of jokes. devoutsalsa started with a joke mixing the two meanings of "capital" using a fake example. I joked that "UniquenessError" isn't the right error, as some countries have more than one capital and two countries have no official capital.

One of those two is Switzerland, which has the official Latin name "Confoederatio Helvetica", leading zinekeller joke that the capital form was "HELVETICA". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Switzerland .

I pretended my implementation of that non-extent programming language generated "Eidgenossenschaft", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidgenossenschaft . As that's a German word, I decided to use a blackletter typeface, specifically, the Fraktur in Unicode which is meant to encode mathematical alphanumeric symbols, then imply that my locale the reason I got a German word.

Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by roxymusic1973 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:20PM (#32075121)
...and Switzerland is divided into cantons :)