OT: Unicode Humor

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 14:12:57 EDT


A certain Mr. M. (name withheld to protect the innocent) asked me the
following:

> Has someone, um, collated any of these before?
>
> We U+03DA-ize obsolete characters.
> Out for a U+03DE coffee.
> We saw the ballgame at U+03E2 stadium.
>

Anyone here know if there is someplace where these things would find
themselves? Tex?

Mark

BTW, I cheated to get the answers, using
http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr,
- pasted in the Input 1 box the above text
- pasted in the Output 1 second-row box:
   [\u0100 - \U0010FFFF] name
- hit 'transliterate'



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