Nov 1, 2026, 3:57 PMmy friend posted about making coffee and through a convoluted chain of events that led to me learning that Boby Lapointe(!) made up a monosyllabic hexadecimal numeral system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary
- Nov 1, 2026, 3:57 PM
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- Nov 1, 2026, 4:09 PM
the exact post was "i made coffee ", where is the Private Use Character U+F0E1E (in Bibi-binary, U+DIHODEHADE) which may render differently (or not at all) depending on which fonts you have installed. we somehow both had the Material Design Icons font installed, so the glyph was both intended and successfully conveyed to me as a bold checkmark, but i wondered what other fonts might be rendering private use characters on my system. after uninstalling MDI, the character was found in the GNU Unifont as KINYA SYLLABLE ET from the ConScript Unicode Registry, which led to Boby.
VojtechStepVojtechStep@mathstodon.xyzNov 1, 2026, 5:17 PM@ncf "singer/mathematician Robert "Boby" Lapointe" that's crazy. Ta Katie t'a quitté was the first song we learned in my French class 😃