• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    Okay, then why do they have to describe the character on Wikipedia?

    There’s no actual Unicode font with that character?

    There’s no reference image scans of that character?

    Hell, the one and only one close example is a mirror image.

    To me, what I saw on my screen is a number 3 with a couple dots.

    Look, I’ve dealt with lead printing press plates, over 3000 fonts on computers, and have proven handwriting forgeries in court.

    Yet I’ve never seen the ampersand symbol written, printed or typed in that manner, and Wikipedia doesn’t even seem to have much of any visual evidence of it, just a description…

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      Okay, then why do they have to describe the character on Wikipedia?

      Tf you want them to do? Link to an interpretive dance on the subject? It’s Wikipedia. They explain shit.

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        Point is it’s apparently not recognized as a standard Unicode character. I don’t read E and 3 the same way, I’m not dyslexic.

        So I saw an unusual character I have never seen before, and wondered what the character’s origins were. What I discovered is that it’s apparently a dyslexic mirror handwritten ampersand of a long lost character typeface or handwriting style.

        Initially I thought it was just a custom fancy handwritten 3.

        So sue me for never seeing dyslexic mirror graffiti out in the wild before.

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          Point is it’s apparently not recognized as a standard Unicode character

          The standard ampersand is U+0026, and there is also a small ampersand, a full-width ampersand, a turned 180-degree ampersand, and 6 stylized versions that were carryovers from wingdings. It is also significantly older than Unicode, and is a standard key on qwerty keyboards (shift-7)

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        Yes, because people like you must have Dyslexia and didn’t see the reverse image I did.

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          Lmao.

          “I was wrong on the internet, so YOU must have a disability to have understood what several other people understood.”

          If you had just humbled yourself and said “oh shit, I didn’t know that. I learned something today. Thanks, guys!” then everybody would cheer you on. Have a better attitude, seek self improvement, and you’ll be a much happier person surrounded by pleasant people.

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          Fair, was focused on messing around with the marks above and below and forgot to double-check. ̗̀𑙓

          [Dead-horse beating edit so you’re not getting useless notification spam: I see what you mean, it’s not very consistent between my devices either. Haven’t found a combination that matches, looks good, and shows up correctly across the different systems.]

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            The final character in your last posted comment doesn’t even show up here, it’s just a box with an X in it.

            I’ll take people’s word on it…