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minus-squareredcalcium@lemmy.institutelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s worse, unicode already has the “𝕏” character for the past 22 years: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
minus-squaretal@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoOh, that’s also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter “i” at one point and the USPTO wouisn’t allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg’s has more stuff to it than just the base letter.
It’s worse, unicode already has the “𝕏” character for the past 22 years:
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
Oh, that’s also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter “i” at one point and the USPTO wouisn’t allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg’s has more stuff to it than just the base letter.