unicode

1. Alternative letter-case form of Unicode.

   As Kyle Chayka writes in a new history of the symbol at The Awl, the meaning of the “the shruggie” is always two, if not three- or four-, fold. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ represents nihilism, “bemused resignation,” and “a Zen-like tool to accept the chaos of universe.” It is Sisyphus in unicode.

   2014 May 21, Robinson Meyer, “The Best Way to Type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2016

alternative unicode

1. international standardscomputingA series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.

   This character isn't in Unicode.

   1 more example

   The Thaana script is written from right to left. Conformant implementations of Thaana script must use the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see Unicode Standard Annex #9, “Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm”).

   2022 September 28, “Version 15.0 – Core Specification”, in Unicode, page 535

2. computingThe Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.

   convert to Unicode

alternative unicode

1. broadlyinformaluncountablecomputingCharacters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.

   Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.