Unicode characters I would like to exist

Stream: general

[Kind Bubble]

I wanted to find a backwards del unicode character, or a backwards 6 unicode character. Maybe somebody knows a link to that list where they have all the common ones in VSCODE as it is used for Lean.

[Eric Wieser]

Are you aware of https://shapecatcher.com/?

[Kind Bubble]

Eric Wieser said:

Are you aware of https://shapecatcher.com/?

Oh, this is great! Ok this will suffice.

[Eric Wieser]

Do you mean ∂?

[Reid Barton]

I think you want ∂ aka PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL.

[Kind Bubble]

Reid Barton said:

I think you want ∂ aka PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL.

I wanted a perfect reflection, so a perfect reflection of the 6 or a perfect reflection of the partial. It was just going to be notation for something which needed two characters which were dual in a way.

[Reid Barton]

Oh I see.

[Reid Barton]

https://www.unicode.org/charts/

[Martin Dvořák]

Eric Wieser said:

Do you mean ∂?

I hate this one. I never know how to read it.

[Julien Puydt]

@Martin Dvořák I heard people use "partial" or "round d"

[Martin Dvořák]

I spent many years believing that it was a Greek letter I hadn't learnt yet.

[Kind Bubble]

Martin Dvořák said:

I spent many years believing that it was a Greek letter I hadn't learnt yet.

It definitely feels like a greek letter.

I wanted two characters that were a perfect reflection of each other. So maybe a tweak of the 6 or a tweak of the partial.

[Kind Bubble]

Martin Dvořák said:

Eric Wieser said:

Do you mean ∂?

I hate this one. I never know how to read it.

take a look at this :laughing:
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[Eric Wieser]

How about d and b?

[Reid Barton]

Or [ and ]

[Eric Wieser]

By "del" did you mean “∇” (U+2207 NABLA)?

[Johan Commelin]

Probably ∂.

[Niels Voss]

I googled and found this link which contains many mirrored characters, for example, ⊶⊷, ⧨⧩, ⫷⫸, etc.

[Kind Bubble]

Niels Voss said:

I googled and found this link which contains many mirrored characters, for example, ⊶⊷, ⧨⧩, ⫷⫸, etc.

Ooo! that's great.

[Mario Carneiro]

If you literally want a mirrored "6" for because you want to emphasize some symmetry, and you are writing in latex, I would recommend using a scalebox to literally just flip the text and put that in a macro so you can use it like a regular character.

[Reid Barton]

At that point why a 6, though

[Reid Barton]

It's not like you're looking for something dual to the concept conveyed by the numeral 6

[Mario Carneiro]

I have no idea, maybe it was a dual 6

[Mario Carneiro]

or it's a dual ∂, hard to tell from the original message

[Kind Bubble]

here's some nice ones. I don't see anyone getting this exotic but there's a whole hieroglyph set to pick from for examples.

𓃰  𓃱    𓃲   𓃳   𓃴   𓃵   𓃶   𓃷   𓃸   𓃹   𓃺   𓃻   𓃼   𓃽   𓃾   𓃿

[Gabriel Ebner]

Those are literally hieroglyphs. omg

[Kind Bubble]

I think that elephant is gonna be a keeper.

[Kind Bubble]

Mario Carneiro said:

If you literally want a mirrored "6" for because you want to emphasize some symmetry, and you are writing in latex, I would recommend using a scalebox to literally just flip the text and put that in a macro so you can use it like a regular character.

that's what I went with yeah. thx for all your help Mario.