Unicode burlesque

Show an ogham or1
Show a little yus2
Add an ogonek3
Unicode Burlesque!

Every script you dream of
Including hieroglyphs
In one encoding scheme:4
Unicode Burlesque!

Oh!
Everyone is writing
With their glyphs and accidence
If you need a little extra
Well, get a supplement5

You may not be fluent
But you do not have to guess
Tell me what you need
Unicode Burlesque!

You can dream of Dodo6
Use it at your risk
The triple underdot is7
Not an ellipsis8
Cyrillic keeps you guessing
O multiocular9
Elifi’s in Georgian10
Unicode Burlesque!

Oh!
Everyone is writing
With their glyphs and accidence
If you need a little extra
Well, get a supplement

Something used in Batak
Is bindu na metek11
It starts a verse that ends
With bindu pangolat12

Show an ogham or
Show a little yus
Add an ogonek
Unicode Burlesque!

Inspiration

Musing about the multi-ocular O ꙮ the thought flitted across my mind that a #Unicode #burlesque show would be a lot of fun. And I write it here so that mine isn't the only imagination this idea now lives in.

@quinnanya@mstdn.social on 2 Sep 2023

Notes

1. ᚖ (U+1696), https://graphemica.com/1696 Back to text
2. ѧ (U+0467), https://graphemica.com/0467 Back to text
3. ˛ (U+02DB), https://graphemica.com/02DB Back to text
4. The Unicode Consortium (https://home.unicode.org/) manages the Unicode character encoding scheme, which has the goal of associating a unique identifier (Unicode code point) to every character used in living (and some dead) languages to facilitate digital interoperability. The Egpytian Hieroglyphs block covers Unicode code points U+13000 to U+1342F. See https://graphemica.com/blocks/egyptian-hieroglyphs Back to text
5. The Unicode character encoding scheme arranges characters in blocks with a common script or theme, to which is given a descriptive name, e.g. Cyrillic. If another block is subsequently added for the same script, the name frequently takes the form ‘X supplement’, e.g. Cyrillic Supplement. Back to text
6. 🦤 (U+1F9A4), https://graphemica.com/%F0%9F%A6%A4 Back to text
7. ⃨  (U+20E8), https://graphemica.com/20E8 Back to text
8. … (U+2026), https://graphemica.com/2026 Back to text
9. ꙮ (U+A66E), https://graphemica.com/A66E Back to text
10. ჸ (U+10F8), https://graphemica.com/10F8 Back to text
11. ᯼ (U+1BFC), https://graphemica.com/1BFC. See also https://r12a.github.io/scripts/batk/btk.html#phrase for more on the role of bindu in the Batak script. Back to text
12. ᯿ (U+1BFF), https://graphemica.com/1BFF Back to text