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minus-square@redcalcium@lemmy.institutelinkfedilinkEnglish10•2 years agoIt’s worse, unicode already has the “𝕏” character for the past 22 years: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
minus-squaretallinkfedilink3•edit-22 years agoOh, that’s also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter “i” at one point and the USPTO wouisn’t allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg’s has more stuff to it than just the base letter.
minus-squareResol van LemmylinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoDespite this, when I do a Google search on “𝕏”, it pretends that I searched for “X”. So although it may look different, it behaves all the same.
It’s worse, unicode already has the “𝕏” character for the past 22 years:
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
Oh, that’s also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter “i” at one point and the USPTO wouisn’t allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg’s has more stuff to it than just the base letter.
Despite this, when I do a Google search on “𝕏”, it pretends that I searched for “X”.
So although it may look different, it behaves all the same.