Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Wikifun/Answers/Question 9

They're all characters from a writing system. The first comes from the [[Cyrillic alphabet]], the second from [[Chinese language|Chinese]], the third set is Japanese [[Katakana]] i think, and the fourth is from the [[Greek alphabet]]. The last isn't, though you might find it in Wingdings. ;P Didn't really need to look, except for the Katakana one. [[User:Maycontainpeanuts|Maycontainpeanuts]] 23:08, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

:Well, the last one seems to be [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]]. My answer is that &#8040; is the odd one out, because it is a precomposed character. [[User:Lupo|Lupo]] 16:46, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

== Unicode ==

First of all, my browser doesn't display all of those fonts correctly, so I had to view the source to get the character codes for these.  I went to [[Unicode]].  From there, I went to [[Mapping of Unicode characters]] to see if I could find out anything about those characters.  I had to convert the decimal codes used in the wiki markup to hexadecimal numbers to compare.  Here is the group that I found for each of the six characters: 
* Cyrillic
* CJK Unified Ideographs
* Katakana
* Katakana
* Greek Extended
* Basic Latin

Now, the one that stood out to me in the list was CJK Unified Ideographs.  Back to [[Unicode]], I found that "the CJK ideographs currently are encoded only in their precomposed form."  So, I think that &#31062; is the odd one out. --[[User:Timc|timc]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[User_talk:Timc|Talk]] 20:42, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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This is odd. From what I can gather:
*&#12527;&#12451; - fi  (Japanese) 
**From [[Katakana]]
*&#1046; - zhe - equivalent of English "z" (Cyrillic) 
**From [[Cyrillic alphabet]]
*&#31062; - zhu - (Chinese)
**From my own knowledge
*&#8040; - o (Greek) - 
**From [[Greek alphabet]] and [[Diacritics]]
*&#1610; - y? (Arabic)
** I did a search on the above character and yielded several results including [[Alchemy]], [[Abu Dhabi]] and [[Arabic language]] itself. By comparison I concluded that the character represents an "y" or an "i" sound eqivalent in English

My guess would be probably &#1046; the only character with non-Asian origins.

Otherwise, it is the only basic character without addition of accents and stuff like that. 
* &#12527;&#12451; is a combination of &#12527;(i) and &#12451;(wa) to form a new pronunciation)
* &#31062; is a combination of two basic "root"s in Chinese to form a new word.
* &#8040; is an [[omega]] with a [[spiritus lenis]] which alters its pronunciation in a word
* &#1610; represents a vowel sound and according to the diacritics page, Arabic vowels have accents added to them

&#1046; remains the only character that isn't modifide

-- [[User:Fiveless|fiveless]] 13:21, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

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I can't help but thinking now that the katakana set &#12527;&#12451; is the only set which is made up of two unicode characters. [[User:Maycontainpeanuts|Maycontainpeanuts]] 11:31, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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My suggested answer is that &#x416;, &#x7956;, &#x30ef;&#x30a3; and &#x1f68; are in the left-to-right bidi class (L). &#x64a; is right-to-left (AL) from the arabic script. [http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/reports/tr9/tr9-6.html] &mdash; [[User:Chmod007|David Remahl]] 09:58, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

&#1046;

It does not appear in Wikipedia logo [[User:SYSS Mouse|SYSS Mouse]] 00:46, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

''I thought this was one of the funniest questions of this round. Each time when I looked at this page after an incorrect answer was given, the correct answer was right there in the corner of the screen... The Cyrillic 'zhe' is not in the Wikipedia logo, is answer I was looking for.'' [[User:Eugene van der Pijll|Eugene van der Pijll]] 01:50, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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