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The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman
- m_myers 16y agoHa! Excellent. Although I might like to add a ♨ in there (technically the hot springs character, but it could also be melting snow).
- dlsspy 16y agoI wonder how many twitter clients are going to recognize that as a link: http://twitter.com/#!/dlsspy/status/18062117684903937 http://twitter.com/#!/dlsspy/status/18062117684903937 Twitter itself does, but tweetdeck does not.
- rythie 16y agoFriendBinder does, I remember fixing it for the http://tinyarro.ws http://tinyarro.ws link shortner
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- mambodog 16y agoThat is how the names are represented to the DNS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#Top-level_domain_implementation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#T... I believe this is abstracted at the browser level.
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- infinity 16y agoTwhirl does not display all the necessary characters, but posting the URL is possible. It did not convert into a clickable link on identi.ca.
- bradleyland 16y agoI don't know about twitter clients, but Google Reader makes a mess out of it in the HN RSS feed.
- ubernostrum 16y agoFor real fun, try this one: http://twitter.com/#!/apag/status/1260699996 http://twitter.com/#!/apag/status/1260699996
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- burgerbrain 16y agoI really can't wait until the phishers get their hands on this. It's going to be a gas.
- gjm11 16y agoKnown problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack .
- burgerbrain 16y agoThe solution to the known problem is more or less "don't use them" (ie, punycode them). It's still a pretty crap situation, it'd be nice to have but if we actually use them in a nice manner, it opens Pandora's Box.
- halfasleep 16y agoThey show up properly for some TLDs, those that have a policy of not allowing confusing/pointless characters. Far as I can tell though, you can't register names like the following (due to TLD restrictions). http://☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝.org/ http://☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝.org/
- lwhi 16y agoMaybe browser vendors could agree to render non-ASCII characters in a different colour? That way the characters are respected, but the user is alerted if a very similar (non-ASCII) code has been used to dupe a user.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoThat'd be fine for Americans (or other people using ASCII) faced with a Russian а, but how about a Russian faced with an ASCII a? You could hardly flag every use of ASCII, and creating a table of which characters go together seems a a lot of work (and it would be hard to do properly).
- CWIZO 16y agoCan somebody post a screen-shot for those of us who only see squares?
- burgerbrain 16y agohttp://ompldr.org/vNnA4aw http://ompldr.org/vNnA4aw
- prs 16y agohttp://ompldr.org/vNnA4bA http://ompldr.org/vNnA4bA - Screen-Shot of the linked Homepage http://ompldr.org/vNnA4bw http://ompldr.org/vNnA4bw - Screenshot of HN
- palish 16y agoWhy do you only see squares?
- spydum 16y agolack of international language support likely.. I see the same thing.
- thought_alarm 16y agoBack in the 80s one would be very excited to find a BBS that supported enhanced Apple IIe Mouse Text for drawing graphics, symbols, and menus at 1200 baud. I suppose this is the Stanley Kubrick 2010 version of that.
- js2 16y agoDoes anyone here remember the graphical BBS client that ran on the Apple II? It ran in hires mode. Wikipedia indicates it might have been called PixelTerm. Whatever it was called, I seem to recall it was written in assembly, as I remember printing out the source listing on my Epson MX100 and spreading all 50+ sheets out on the floor to learn assembly. Ah the days, and sorry for the tangent. :-)
- davvid 16y agoOn a related note, does anyone remember the graphical dos BBS client from the 90s called ripterm? My first modem was 2400 baud so I'm a youngin' by some standards, but wow, seeing incremental graphic drawing was pretty cool back in the pre-AOL days. It was neater than progressive-jpeg because you'd watch the vector image get constructed on the fly: first the background outline, then a floodfill, then some more shapes, a few more flood fills, some detail lines, etc. Before that I do remember using a modem in 3rd grade (circa 1988) and reading ascii-art emails from my principal. It was a green monochrome display so it was probably either ASCIIExpress or ProTerm, but I'm just guessing based on context.
- tptacek 16y agoI remember RIPscrip not getting much love on the BBS scene while ANSI got more and more elaborate; like a very juvenile microcosm of the war between bitmap and vector graphics.
- enneff 16y agoIt might be because while RIP graphics were technically superior, they were just another lo fi graphics medium. PCs had better graphics in games etc, while ANSI art has an enduring oldschool quality about it. Also it degrades gracefully to monochrome ASCII. :-)
- kinghajj 16y agoI don't get it. Could someone explain the story?
- jawee 16y ago☁→❄→☃→☀→☺→☂→☹→✝ One cold night, when the temperature was just at that comfortable temperature below freezing, clouds began to form in the heavens. Before long, these clouds let forth a surplus of unique, sticky snowflakes. These snowflakes came to litter the ground. A child looked out and observed his frontyard which had been transformed into a winter wonderland. Rushing outside, he rolled the snow into 3 large orbs descending in size; thus he made the snow into the likeness of a man. The sun was shining warm as he worked. All was happy. However, as the sun continued to come out, the falling snow quickly turned to rain. The rain came down upon the snow, and working with the sunlight, the snow quickly went away. As the snow disappeared, so too did the snowman. The snowman bore a slow death as he melted to the ground. Such sorrow was wrought, until the final death had at last approached.
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- treitnauer 16y agoLOL, that's awesome :)
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- sliverstorm 16y agoNeat, but I can't help thinking "oh goodie, URL's I can't type..." I mean, there's always Unicode tables/charts you can copy the symbol out of, or perhaps keystroke combinations, but Unicode has 65,533 characters.
- mukyu 16y agoI was expecting a story about how/why it was introduced into Unicode (many parts of it have interesting stories). This is completely content-free.