A result of this is that if you ask for a character such as "𓀴" (U+13034 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH A044) in a monospace font, the symbol you get back can be variable width.
Many other unicode symbols also suffer from this problem. E.g. ␀ is the printable version of the unprintable NUL (\0) control character, but it's so small at 13.3px / 10pt CSS font size that it's difficult to distinguish from the other control pictures.
␀ ␁ ␂ ␃ ␄ ␅ ␆ ␇ ␈ ␉ ␊ ␋ ␌ ␍ ␎ ␏ ␐ ␑ ␒ ␓ ␔ ␕ ␖ ␗ ␘ ␙ ␚ ␛ ␜ ␝ ␞ ␟ ␠ ␡
How those look on display w/o pixel scaling: https://i.imgur.com/lAAyjXu.png
And actually it is in the Arabic "name of God," thanks!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%...
I didn't know there's a whole ligature as a single code point U+FDFD available, thanks sscotth. The code point is also easy to remember.
(It, accidentally, also most probably represents the words first said by the Orlando shooter when calling 911, when the translation in the transcription is compared.)
Is this the biggest glyph in Unicode?
Biang from Biang biang noodles is also fairly complex (though not supported by Unicode)
"appearance of a dragon in flight"
(M-x ucs-insert FDFD)
http://i.imgur.com/kKfLYgx.jpg
Interestingly in Safari the hieroglyph is shown (still small though), I wonder why Chrome can't find it?
What browser/os are you using? Is it possible you're going through a proxy that is altering the HTTP headers?
[0] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2660/index.htm [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2406/index.htm
The basic problem is that Unicode characters (which may consist of as many codepoints as you like) have varying width. For instance Chinese has characters that are displayed over a width of two normal monospace characters.
See this hacker news post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10206380
So the problem with emojis is that they aren't really specified to be full width or half width characters: https://ianrenton.com/blog/adventures-in-emoji/
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