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As I say in the blog post, this is only useful when you want / need to save a couple of characters in a message. Or if you're desperate for the URl to look "int
by edent 7y ago
As I say in the blog post, this is only useful when you want / need to save a couple of characters in a message. Or if you're desperate for the URl to look "interesting".
It's also handy if you want to hide a URl from automated detection tools.
But, you are right, not all characters will render on all systems.
- saagarjha 7y agoFair enough, I do agree that it's certainly interesting from a technical perspective. But in general, I would stand by my claim that you don't really want to use these because they just don't work in a lot of places–either they won't render, or URL detection won't work and you can't click on the link, or they'll annoy people who use screenreaders…