It’s the thing where similar-looking letters are taken from other alphabets to make fancy looking letters. The not-O there is a Greek letter, for example, specifically I think it’s lowercase Sigma.
Ironically, given Yog is a Russophone and people do this with Cyrillic all the time, much to the chagrin of those who can read Cyrillic.
A very mean, and sometimes fun, trick to play on others in a collaborative programming environment is to randomly replace semicolons with Greek question marks and watch them slowly descend into madness during debugging.
I thought they were letters from another alphabet or something, had no idea they were just another font.
It’s the thing where similar-looking letters are taken from other alphabets to make fancy looking letters. The not-O there is a Greek letter, for example, specifically I think it’s lowercase Sigma.
Ironically, given Yog is a Russophone and people do this with Cyrillic all the time, much to the chagrin of those who can read Cyrillic.
A very mean, and sometimes fun, trick to play on others in a collaborative programming environment is to randomly replace semicolons with Greek question marks and watch them slowly descend into madness during debugging.
Captcha: Type these letters (and its just ones, capital I’s and lowercase l’s in that font where they all look the same)
As a person with a math degree (meaning that I’m an expert on the Greek alphabet), I confirm, that is lowercase sigma.