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Just realized that this is the first time I've seen emoji from a URL render in my browser's address bar. That really surprised me for a second.
by sudosteph 8y ago
Just realized that this is the first time I've seen emoji from a URL render in my browser's address bar. That really surprised me for a second.
- rzzzt 8y agoSome domains use emojis as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2035572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2035572
- hinkley 8y agoCongratulations, you are one of today's 10,000. An early example of this is http://xn--n3h.net/ http://xn--n3h.net/ or snowman in hat dot net (turns out hacker news strips unicode emoji.) Some browsers convert to punycode to reduce the incidence of phishing attacks based on homoglyphs (two characters that look the same).