unexpected use of unicode

[jwgh]

I was in the burritza place on Thayer Street and I noticed that the burrito half had a sign up with prices for side orders. The cheapest item was like 55 cents.

But instead of rendering this as '55￠' (fifty-five cents) it was rendered as '55⊄' (fifty-five is not a proper subset of).

This made me happy.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time telling between ° and º.

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

∀Ŵ∈∫⌀Ⅿ∃¡

[saucypunk.livejournal.com]

i'll have to look for that.

i was having pizza today across the street from there, and there was a guy with a shirt that said "there's no √-1 in team!"

JEEBUS

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

How the heck do Italian and Spanish get their own special ordinal indicator symbols defined in HTML and Unicode while every other language in the world has to make do with superscripts?

Actually, in Georgian I guess they're normally just written on the baseline, since the indicator surrounds the number: მე12ე (ორი ori 2 → თორმეტი tormet.i 12 → მეთორმეტე metormet.e 12^th). I don't have a clue, btw, why · · is described as a "Georgian comma" in the HTML spec.