naphtaliMar 19, 2025

Is it just me or too filters in modern search engines do not show any discussions on the background of 1488 becoming a unicode for symbol א, aleph? Someone must have tried to dig this story up.

But all I see is a single post on Medium:
https://medium.com/@wimahl/unicodes-nazi-problem-58fbd4291a7f

#hebrew #israel

Unicode’s Nazi Problem - Ariel Shultz Armijo - Medium

Modern computing has White Christian Supremacy written into some of it’s most fundamental aspects. Sounds a little far fetched? Don’t worry, I fully intend to back up that claim. We’re going to be…

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Show threadMax IorshMar 20, 2025
@naphtali
Yep, totally bizzarre... Never paid attention to it before though...
Show threadYehuda T. Deutsch
@iorsh @naphtali
I doubt it, Hebrew was added to Unicode in 1991, Unicode 1.0, the term in question hasn't been used that way until years later
Mar 20, 2025 at 4:25pmWeb
Show threadnaphtaliMar 20, 2025
@uda @iorsh
I agree, in 1991 it could only be known among activists, it was not yet a popular meme.
Show threadYehuda T. DeutschMar 21, 2025
@naphtali @iorsh
More than that, while 14 words was going around then for a decade already, and though I am not sure when 88 was started, the combination came only a few years later, so not even group members used it as a combined slogan