Robin Leroy
@eggleroy
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๐ญโ๐ฟ๐พโ๐๐๐โ๐ญโ๐พ๐โ๐๐๐๐ An egg drowning in a sea of papers ๐ญโ๐๐๐โ๐พ๐๐ โ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ข ไธ้ขๅจ่ฎบๆๆตทไธญ็่ https://t.co/8AZOpuolTm | https://t.co/pEZp0g9cDG
Joined February 2014
A new version of ๐๐จ๐
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Customized backspacing behaviour: signs that are encoded as sequences, such as ๐๐ or ๐ฉ๐ณ, are backspaced atomically if they are composed atomically. See the relevant section of the readme. Added...
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"sharks are older than the north star" is now the worst fact i know
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The Mesopotamian ice trade ๐ง๐จ๏ธ This letter was sent to our favourite good-for-nothing, Yasmaแธซ-Addรป, by the vassal king of Carchemish. It shows us that the practice of harvesting ice and exporting it goes back to as early as the 1750s BCE! (1/6)
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โClothes make the awฤซlumโ In Old Babylonian schools, if you didnโt wear the newest Pradaโข robes but instead clothes hand-made by your mum, you were considered to be less loved by her. โฆ or so argued this spoiled son of a high official. Here is the letter of Iddin-Sรฎn to Zinรป!
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achievement unlocked: get cited in a Unicode Technical Standard
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โจ๐โจ Unicode Version 15.1 has been released! โจ๐งจโจ Bringing the total number of characters to 149,803! โจ๐พโจ Find more information here โ https://t.co/ooTcjrayiF
#Unicode15_1
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Thanks to @pgconstable for pointing out that the Text Services Framework facilitates sequence backspacing, and to @PavlaRosenstein and @erica_scarpa for testing and providing feedback on the macOS version. โ ยน @KFeuerherm, https://t.co/Mqmtl9CSCq, 2011.
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It must be noted that a cuneiform input methodยน has been available for Mac OS X since 2011. However, it uses an old version of what is now the OGSL, and has some limitations: ASCII fallbacks, confusing candidate numbering, etc.; see its README. These are solved in ๐๐จ๐
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today I got lucky and saw something rare: the hand-operated antique drawbridge was opened so an antique boat could leave the special dock reserved for museum piece boats
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One of my favourite features in Akkadian is that sometimes(!) the adverbial marker -iลก can be used like the English -ish. abru "brushwood pile" -> abriลก "like a brushwood pile", or in other words: brushwood pileish ๐
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Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy.
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A new version of ๐๐จ๐
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Updated OGSL (see changes over the past couple of years). Added entry by sign list number: type x followed by a sign list abbreviation (aBZL, BAU, ELLes, HZL, KWU, LAK, MEฬA, REฬC, RSP, ล L, ZATU) a...
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"Instead of asking for a Sumerian speaker, how about you learn Amorite?!" Yasmaแธซ-Addรป is back and this time he can't speak Amorite. โน๏ธ What could be the context of his request for a Sumerian scribe & why would his father then scold him for not knowing Amorite? Find out below!
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The #beta review period has begun for #Unicode Version 15.1, slated for release later this year. https://t.co/fSM1b4vHm7
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@amazonmilkfrog @mikeharazin We should call finite verbs buttered verbs.
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๐๏พ ุงุจู ุงูููุซู
, the new release of Principia, adds a new rotating and pulsating reference frame wherein equipotentials are drawn. This provides valuable context when planning low-energy transfers and other trajectories involving the Lagrange points. https://t.co/4SS0HiPxU0
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