Comment by philipov
1 day ago
"- the spectre of communism. All the powers of old encoding have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre..."
1 day ago
"- the spectre of communism. All the powers of old encoding have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre..."
Well, Communism made it into Unicode (U+262D). I tried to show it here but it gets stripped.
I have it it in my .XCompose as
Never used, but I laugh every time I see it there.
As a slightly related tangent, The compose key mnemonic interface for rarely used characters is pretty great, beats trying to remember alt codes.
Originally added to the upstream compose map in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/commit/f052..., and replaced in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/-/merge_reque.... Given the people involved in the initial commit, I suspect (but do not have an absolute memory of) it may have been influenced by my ownership of (insert a hammer and sickle symbol here).net.
Figures, it's a capitalist website after all...
YOU SEEM TO BE ABLE TO ALSO TYPE IN LOWERCASE BUT FOR SOME REASon i can't
never mind i pressed caps lock everything is better now