I'll just comment for those curious, I do see all of them on my iPhone.

I see them all on Chrome on Android.

I see them on Firefox Android

Yep you are right. What is 𓂹 the deal with the walking stick like thing though?

Apparently that's a folded cloth. I haven't been able to discover why.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Egyptian_hieroglyphs

https://twitter.com/linguopunk/status/1062616416602480642

This thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18348573

Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to.

You can get the phallic Egyptian characters to render in windows if you sorround them with other Egyptian characters

> Even U+130B8 𓂸 which isn't even a penis

Hmm, but it does looks like a whole penis and scrotum in my browser (firefox on mac).

Indeed all three are penises, I goofed looking up the character in a table since it wasn't rendering (off by one)

I was able to text those glyphs, it made me laugh way more than it should at my age. Thanks for sharing

Oh no, I predict we'll be seeing a lot more Unicode on HN comments now...

This depends on the evolution of the culture of the site. There is a possibility that no-value distractions will be discouraged.

do you think that your and dong's constant discussion about the discussion is not 10x worse at diluting pertinent content?

"Constant." You may have me confused with someone else.

There should be more discussion about the discussion, as discussion about the discussion shapes the future.

do i now.. you have more comments in this thread about the discussion than the topic. that is offtopic spam. here's an idea. if you have nothing to say on topic, and want to discuss discussion, start a thread about discussions. crazy that people on a thread about intel want to read intel comments.

No, it might not be the cause but it is usually an indication of decline.

Yes.

If a specific Unicode symbol adds actual clarity or meaning in some context, I would not expect it to be discouraged. I didn't mean my adjectives as a generalization of unicode graphics, but the opposite: a specification of circumstances.

HN won't let me have a smiley face emoji, but it will let through an Egyptian penis.

Does anyone know what the “penis playing croquet” hieroglyph is supposed to be?

The 'croquet' is a folded cloth, but might just be there to signify an 's' sound -- in a hieroglyph dictionary [1] it says "lead" or "guide", `seshem`, maybe because the penis on its own can mean bull or donkey, so maybe referring to animals that must be lead, just a guess. Anyway its used at the front of a few names here referring to a leaders of one kind or another.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=-VMEputo798C&lpg=PA1210&ot... egyptian&pg=PA699#v=onepage&q=leader&f=false

You telling me you’ve never heard of cockuet?

Fantastic! This is the most informative and relevant comment I’ve read all day. +1 ;)

How would one get some better fonts?

Weaponized text humor.