The Gold Sponsor of U+5B57 「字」

One fun thing I did, late in 2021, was to donate a bit of money to the Unicode Consortium to sponsor U+5B57 「字」, my favourite of their more than 144,000 characters. It is a silly thing, but also a bit noble, and a bit useful, and a bit interesting if one peels back the cover and looks at the mechanisms to which it connects. In other words, it is the sort of thing I like to do.

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