Package: neo-cli
Version: 0.6.1-1
Severity: normal
Hi!
If you run neo with --charset=runic, besides of actual runes (ie, letters
that have been used in various historical periods), the program also uses
a bunch of symbols that had no real-life use (U+16F1..U+16F8):
* Tolkien:
* U+16F1 included in The Hobbit when Tolkien found no way to spell his
name within Anglo-Saxon runes
* U+16F2 and U+16F3 from a personal letter
* Franks Casket:
* U+16F4..U+16F8 (these at least come from 8th century) are weird
variant letters not attested anywhere else, for reasons not
known despite generations of research but conjectured to be unique
numerologic rune magic.
But you probably care less about actual historical reasons. A practical
one is that the rest of runes come from Unicode 3.0 (1999) while the
U+16F1..U+16F8 symbols were added only in Unicode 7.0 (2014) and thus
are missing from most fonts we ship. This results in ugly replacement
symbols marring the display.
Also: eg. cyrillic uses actual letters only, not a medieval scribe's
doodles like "multiocular o" that was drawn in a single copy of a book
from 1429 -- yet got encoded in Unicode anyway.
Meow!
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