Comment by lmkg
4 years ago
It gets better: this glyph is bugged. Somehow, the guy responsible for adding it to Unicode somehow got the number of eyes wrong. Per his description, Unicode fonts represent it with 7 eyes, but after getting called out on Twitter he realized the original manuscript shows 10 eyes.
This bug will be fixed in Unicode 15.
Achieving peak Byzantium there, I guess.
What about modern uses of the character that specifically intended 7 eyes? Unicode needs to add a time or (worse, but probably OK) version datum to glyphs or glyph ranges, I suppose (applying it only at the document level wouldn't suffice, as in the case of quoting).
Going to the release note pdf, it will "expand" to 10 eyes by adding one more to the end of each horizontal row (if people are curious).