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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by rsynnott on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:39AM (#41878433)
This is, IIRC, how the lime works; according to the Unicode consortium, a lime is a green lemon.

(It would be much more fun if they'd just represented them as citrus hybrids with ZWJs.)

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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by zahlman on Saturday October 19, 2024 @01:51PM (#41889333)
To be fair, the genetics of all the various citrus species are pretty wild (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy).
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