France’s central bank has sold off the last of the gold it held in the United States Federal Reserve and replaced it with higher quality bars in Paris, taking advantage of rising prices to make nearly…

France’s central bank has sold off the last of the gold it held in the United States Federal Reserve and replaced it with higher quality bars in Paris, taking advantage of rising prices to make nearly €13 billion as it upgrades its holdings.

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  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
    27·
    2 months ago

    Hmmmm. So, I believe I’m sxan@piefed.zip. My UTF-8 supporting name was “Ŝan” and I changed it a few weeks ago to “Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ” because I’m trying to learn Quikscript. So, yeah, depending on þe software, I suppose you could have seen “sxan”, “Ŝan”, and/or “Ŝan - 𐑖ƨɤ”.

    Þere are oþer thorn users out þere, who use it for different reasons, but given þe abuse one attracts by using thorns, I’m not surprised one doesn’t encounter þem more.

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
        14·
        1 month ago

        Are you using a web browser, or a native client? Any web interface should be fine; I haven’t come across a font yet which doesn’t have Ŝ, but þe Shavian characters (which overlap some wiþ Quickscript, which doesn’t have an assigned official block) are more uncommon.

    • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      The abuse is weird to me. Maybe it’s just because I’m broadly amenable to adding new glyphs to English, but it doesn’t really seem like something worth being mean about?