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These four Unicode symbols have a similarly obscure origin: EDIT: automatically removed by HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)#Notation_and_recordi...

Relevant thread on the Unicode mailing list, with Subject "Purpose of and rationale behind Go Markers U+2686 to U+2689" is here: https://unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2016-m03/thread.ht...




> EDIT: automatically removed by HN

I'm curious about this. Was your post removed for containing certain unicode characters?


Probably not the whole post, just the uncommon characters. A few days ago HN deleted several characters from my comment immediately upon posting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24851415


Just tested it, tried a comment with an emoji and it never appeared. So I'd assume so.




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