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Big Solidus and Big Reverse Solidus (U+29F8U+29F9). #2414

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jmcwilliams403 opened this issue Jul 11, 2024 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2415
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Big Solidus and Big Reverse Solidus (U+29F8U+29F9). #2414

jmcwilliams403 opened this issue Jul 11, 2024 · 0 comments · Fixed by #2415

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  • The requested characters are ...
    • Latin
    • Cyrillic
    • Greek
    • Punctuation
    • Diacritic / Mark
    • Symbol
  • The requested characters are used in ...
    • The alphabet / character set of a natural language.
    • The alphabet / character set of a constructed language.
    • The alphabet / character set of a transliteration or notation system.
    • Mathematical or other professional use in documents.
    • The symbol set of a programming language. For the languages that support using arbitrary symbols, please provide usages in well-known components or libraries.
    • The symbol set of a command-line program.
  • For each character you requested, there is at least a monospace/programming font supports this character. Provide images below.

These characters are often used in file names as surrogates for ASCII slash/backslash in order show things like dates without conflicting with the standard directory delimiter characters in Unix/DOS systems respectively.

Example: (source)
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It is also frequently used in YouTube video titles for this very reason, and therefore may appear in files downloaded via command-line programs usch as ytDownloader as a result.

/\⧸⧹

Julia Mono:
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Fairfax HD:
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Pragmata Pro:
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@be5invis be5invis added this to the Backlog milestone Jul 11, 2024
be5invis added a commit that referenced this issue Jul 12, 2024
  - BIG SOLIDUS (`U+29F8`) (#2414).
  - BIG REVERSE SOLIDUS (`U+29F9`) (#2414).
@be5invis be5invis linked a pull request Jul 12, 2024 that will close this issue
be5invis added a commit that referenced this issue Jul 12, 2024
- BIG SOLIDUS (`U+29F8`) (#2414).
  - BIG REVERSE SOLIDUS (`U+29F9`) (#2414).
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