Unicode

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1. Alternative letter-case form of Unicode.

   “As Kyle Chayka writes in a new history of the symbol at The Awl, the meaning of the “the shruggie” is always two, if not three- or four-, fold. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ represents nihilism, “bemused resignation,” and “a Zen-like tool to accept the chaos of universe.” It is Sisyphus in unicode.”

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Etymology: Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.

1. Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.

   “Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.”