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https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/475503450/editor/

tap, press InT, type 5, type the text you want, type the craziness level, (how many diacritics will be inserted after each character), and then triple-click the copy-paste thing

its from a mobile game called agar.io its a custom nickname. It is also the most unique and complex string of characters I've ever found. I found the characters: ꛤᥲ᥉ᡶꫀ

There is a Mongolian character, Tai Viet, Tai Le Lue, some African language, and some obscure ancient south Asian language

If you're looking to adjust the spacing between multiple characters uniformly (as in the OP's example), then tracking (also referred to as "letter-spacing") is the thing. See https://creativemarket.com/blog/2014/09/18/whats-the-difference-between-leading-kerning-and-tracking for more information on the difference between kerning and tracking.

I appreciate the concise explanation. These are the types of insights I've been looking for, but are hard to glean from observations or while getting lost in the hundreds of pages in the Unicode specification, Wikipedia pages, or Unicode Explained. It's all very interesting stuff, but even as a seasoned programmer, sometimes hard to keep straight.

Other than new emoji
most new characters are for minor or ancient languages
and you will need to search for and manually install them. noto emoji has been updated recently and you can download it.

Noto Home - Google Fonts

Release Unicode 14.0 · googlefonts/noto-emoji

From your description, yes, it sounds like your concerns revolve around deficiencies in existing keyboard layouts and possibly fonts, whereas Unicode is not concerned with those things (it has an influence on them, but is not a standard about font design or input methods). You could potentially mitigate the keyboard issue by creating your own custom layout with something like Keyman. The font part is harder because making fonts is...well, hard — but you might check out some open source font projects that support Coptic (like the Noto project), file an issue, and maybe let folks know of your willingness to provide guidance and advice even if you're unable to do the actual font work.

Thank you, I didn't know about this site.

I searched for a long time, found that I have to install fonts and tried a few custom ones, many of which didn't work. But these Google ones did:

https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Linear+A?noto.script=Lina
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Linear+B?noto.script=Linb

You need to install a font that supports Old Korean jamo formation (such as Noto Sans KR) with a font installer (iFont) and you should be able to display in an app that lets you choose a font (Pages, Keynote, MS Word, etc)

You can use WinCompose.

It defines key sequences for many Unicode characters using a Compose key, and lets you define your own. It also has a "Extended Unicode input" option, where you type <compose> U 1 A 3 F for U+1A3F.

Someone developed a small monitoring program for linux (https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop), it has weird (at first) requirements:

Also needs a UTF8 locale and a font that covers:

• Unicode Block “Braille Patterns” U+2800 - U+28FF
• Unicode Block “Geometric Shapes” U+25A0 - U+25FF
• Unicode Block "Box Drawing" and "Block Elements" U+2500 - U+259F

But he builds the UI with the last two and draws occupation graphs with Braille.
I thought it was in the same area than OP's post.

>e best tool I use is Compose feature under *NIX desktops and its port to Windows: WinCompose. This feature is awesome, it brings smart combination like <Compose> + ' + e = é or <Compose> + o + e = œ.
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>Windows default charmap is lackluster, those available on Linux are great tho, some of them have been ported to windows, and alternatives exist (see https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html)

I thought about using a compose key , but found escape sequences more straightforward and easier to use .

a book has been written too : decodeunicode (https://www.amazon.fr/Decodeunicode-Schriftzeichen-Welt-Johannes-Bergerhausen/dp/3874398137)