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Comment by OisinMoran

1 day ago

It seems that of all the numbers (needed here), the symbol for 20 (๐’Ž™) is the only one that doesn't render on Android. Very odd. It does seem to be the last used codepoint (U+12399) in the Cuneiform block (U+12000โ€“U+123FF) and they seem to stop rendering from U+1236E (on Android) which leaves 43 symbols un-rendered.

Anyone any idea why that might be?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_(Unicode_block) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform_Numbers_and_Punctuat...

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Okay, in the interim I have a shipped a fix for Android (seems fine on an iPhone emulation) that uses two tens like so "๐’Œ‹๐’Œ‹" (looks like <<) instead of one twenty "๐’Ž™" (also looks like << but a bit tighter). This is definitely one of the weirdest patches [0] I've ever doneโ€”changing how an ancient language is displayed based on the specific type of incomprehensibly advanced technology it's being displayed onโ€”but I guess that's what Sundays are for.

[0] https://github.com/OisinMoran/OisinMoran.github.io/commit/15...