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> have emoji domain xn--?? Yes. See http://xn--i-7iq.ws http://xn--i-7iq.ws Edit: HN does not let me enter emoji characters.
by tim-- 8y ago
> have emoji domain xn--??
Yes. See http://xn--i-7iq.ws http://xn--i-7iq.ws
Edit: HN does not let me enter emoji characters.
- matte_black 8y agoWow, didn’t know this was possible. What’s next, emoji in stock symbols? Might as well...
- infogulch 8y agoWhen we start writing legal documents in emoji we will have taken hieroglyphics full circle.
- alanfalcon 8y agoI believe Neal Stephenson essentially anticipates this in Anathem.
- pasta 8y agoIt's just unicode. And I think it's good browsers will change it into the the dashed version. Because: www.аррlе.com/
- tialaramex 8y agoBrowser vendors have instituted a variety of different rules for this problem, include at least: 1. Decide (policy, enacted by humans) for each TLD if its registry has rules that will prevent abuse, if so whitelist this TLD and show IDNs as text for this TLD, everything else is punycode. 2. Algorithmically detect "confusing" IDNs and show punycode instead for those.
- floatingatoll 8y agoFWIW - If you feel that's a bug worth reporting, drop an email to the site admins at hn@ycombinator.com so they're aware of it.
- tim-- 8y agoTo be honest, it's probably for the best, it's just that this is one of those edge cases where it was used for a legitimate purpose.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoI'm fairly sure that the HN comment system has been built back in the early to mid 2000's and hasn't been updated since.
- detaro 8y agoIt supports unicode. And indeed, for a while you could post emoji, until they were added to filters disallowing them. You can still find old posts containing them, rendering correctly.
- lucb1e 8y agoYou must have missed the recent additions of 'unvote'/'undown', deleting posts (I am not sure anymore, but don't think this was possible a few years ago), limiting edit time, much fewer (in my experience: no more) 'no such thing' errors when the cache expired, collapsible comment trees, etc. These are all small improvements that made it a lot better. That the look hasn't changed for as long as I'm here, I'm quite happy about. If the alternative is something with loads of whitespace and Javascript like Reddit, Skype, etc., then please let us not update "the comment system from the early to mid 2000s".
- Jaruzel 8y agoWhich to be honest, is one of the great things about it. It's clean, it's simple, it's fast, and more importantly it's NOT phpBB.