Adventures in Unicode

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Shows a persistent typoed character name in Unicode that cannot be corrected, a revived medieval glyph — the multiocular O with 10 eyes — whose standardization changes after 15 years yet only three fonts (all by one designer) implement it, and vendor-driven emoji divergence: a promised trombone with unspecified design and traffic-light emoji that vendors flip-flop on (red‑yellow‑green vs green‑yellow‑red) so implementations disagree across platforms and regions.

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