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  • I have compiled all the “iota” Unicode search results so you can stop this thread.

    U+0196 Ɩ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
    U+0269 ɩ LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA
    U+027F ɿ LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK
    U+0345 ͅ COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
    U+037A ͺ GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
    U+038A Ί GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
    U+0390 ΐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS
    U+0399 Ι GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
    U+03AA Ϊ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA
    U+03AF ί GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
    U+03B9 ι GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
    U+03CA ϊ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA
    U+1D7C ᵼ LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH STROKE
    U+1DA5 ᶥ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL IOTA
    U+1F30 ἰ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI
    U+1F31 ἱ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA
    U+1F32 ἲ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
    U+1F33 ἳ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
    U+1F34 ἴ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
    U+1F35 ἵ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
    U+1F36 ἶ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1F37 ἷ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1F38 Ἰ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI
    U+1F39 Ἱ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA
    U+1F3A Ἲ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
    U+1F3B Ἳ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
    U+1F3C Ἴ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
    U+1F3D Ἵ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
    U+1F3E Ἶ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1F3F Ἷ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1F76 ὶ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA
    U+1F77 ί GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA
    U+1FD0 ῐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VRACHY
    U+1FD1 ῑ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH MACRON
    U+1FD2 ῒ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND VARIA
    U+1FD3 ΐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND OXIA
    U+1FD6 ῖ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PERISPOMENI
    U+1FD7 ῗ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND PERISPOMENI
    U+1FD8 Ῐ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH VRACHY
    U+1FD9 Ῑ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH MACRON
    U+1FDA Ὶ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA
    U+1FDB Ί GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA
    U+2129 ℩ TURNED GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
    U+2373 ⍳ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL IOTA
    U+2378 ⍸ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL IOTA UNDERBAR
    U+2C27 Ⱗ GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
    U+2C29 Ⱙ GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS
    U+2C57 ⱗ GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
    U+2C59 ⱙ GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS
    U+A646 Ꙇ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
    U+A647 ꙇ CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTA
    U+1D6B0 𝚰 MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D6CA 𝛊 MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL IOTA
    U+1D6EA 𝛪 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D704 𝜄 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL IOTA
    U+1D724 𝜤 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D73E 𝜾 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL IOTA
    U+1D75E 𝝞 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D778 𝝸 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL IOTA
    U+1D798 𝞘 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
    U+1D7B2 𝞲 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL IOTA
    U+1E027 𞀧 COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
    U+1E029 𞀩 COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS








  • I wish I had your research skills. Where does it even say that?

    The letters may have been chosen for early, limited 7-segment display drivers, such as a hex-to-7seg decoder. However, these fell out of use when transistors were no longer expensive in the 1990s and it made more sense to minimize the number of chips rather than each chip’s complexity, so the main microcontroller used 14 GPIO pins or a single external LED driver to multiplex all 6 digits. Before the 1990s, it probably did not make sense to make this device digital at all, I think gyms would just use analog clocks with marked dials.





  • First sentence of my post, for this very reason – they own the franchise, after all. The law may also change the other way but that’s very unlikely to happen in the US within 50 years.

    I wonder if they could develop a system of draconian DRM (only their own theatres with metal detectors, personalized online streams…) and mildly edit movies every few decades so that they can destroy the original and effectively renew copyright. The gaming industry’s always-online DRM makes nuking a release possible but copyright lasts for about 20 console generations (we’ve only had 8 so far!) so they don’t even have to do that.