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And here it is: (Now we see how many people get the joke.)

by msla 6y ago

msla 6y ago
Wow. Now even I don't get the joke. When I posted, the post included this character: U+262D https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/262d/index.htm https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/262d/index.htm Unicode Character 'HAMMER AND SICKLE' (U+262D) Yep, it gets eaten by HN. It's in the BMP, dammit! It should be safe!
- wolfgang42 6y ago
  HN intentionally removes “emoji-type” characters (I don’t know what the exact criteria are, it’s definitely more complicated than which plane the character is on) from posts. The only time I’ve seen this cause issues is when trying to discuss Unicode itself; presumably the moderators decided this is an acceptable tradeoff.
  - loeg 6y ago
    Possibly the entire "Miscellaneous Symbols" block?
  - josephcsible 6y ago
    Automatically silently stripping characters from posts seems like a bad idea. If we want to forbid characters from posts, wouldn't it be way safer to prevent the post and tell the user to remove them?
    - kps 6y ago
      There's no obvious criteria. 𓂺
      - edgyquant 6y ago
        Could you not have picked a different emoji (also why is that a a character?)
        jle17 6y ago
        > (also why is that a a character?) It's in Unicode because it's a hieroglyph. Now why is it a hieroglyph I think you would need to ask ancient Egyptians.
- ramshorns 6y ago
  It's invisible, it's a ghost character!
  - klyrs 6y ago
    I see it fine. Enable showdead in your account preferences.
    - dane-pgp 6y ago
      Then who was phone?
GeorgeRichard 6y ago
"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism." The Communist Manifesto
mleonhard 6y ago
Is there a symbol for fascism?
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- djur 6y ago
  There are swastikas facing both directions as religious symbols, but not angled Hakenkreuz like the Nazis tended to use. There also isn't a fasces or anything like that, although I feel like that's a less widely recognized symbol (and of course it is used in non-fascist contexts as well). Probably the most interesting political symbol in Unicode is the Emblem of Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Iran It's referred to officially as "FARSI SYMBOL", which apparently was a euphemism chosen because during ISO standardization of Unicode the original name "SYMBOL OF IRAN" was deemed unacceptable. As a logo, it wouldn't make it into the standard today, but nobody knows how it originally got in there: http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/01/29/363208.html http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/01/29/36320...
  - riffraff 6y ago
    The Celtic cross is also there, tho tipically represented as asymmetrical, while the one used in fascist context is symmetrical.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  W: "The Italian term fascismo is derived from fascio meaning "a bundle of sticks", ultimately from the Latin word fasces. The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: a single rod is easily broken, while the bundle is difficult to break." So just look for a farming-related item with 2 or more stick-like objects bound together. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

And here it is: (Now we see how many people get the joke.)

by msla 6y ago

And here it is: (Now we see how many people get the joke.)

msla 6y ago

Wow. Now even I don't get the joke. When I posted, the post included this character: U+262D https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/262d/index.htm https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/262d/index.htm Unicode Character 'HAMMER AND SICKLE' (U+262D) Yep, it gets eaten by HN. It's in the BMP, dammit! It should be safe!

wolfgang42 6y ago
HN intentionally removes “emoji-type” characters (I don’t know what the exact criteria are, it’s definitely more complicated than which plane the character is on) from posts. The only time I’ve seen this cause issues is when trying to discuss Unicode itself; presumably the moderators decided this is an acceptable tradeoff.
- loeg 6y ago
  Possibly the entire "Miscellaneous Symbols" block?
- josephcsible 6y ago
  Automatically silently stripping characters from posts seems like a bad idea. If we want to forbid characters from posts, wouldn't it be way safer to prevent the post and tell the user to remove them?
  - kps 6y ago
    There's no obvious criteria. 𓂺
    - edgyquant 6y ago
      Could you not have picked a different emoji (also why is that a a character?)
      - jle17 6y ago
        > (also why is that a a character?) It's in Unicode because it's a hieroglyph. Now why is it a hieroglyph I think you would need to ask ancient Egyptians.
ramshorns 6y ago
It's invisible, it's a ghost character!
- klyrs 6y ago
  I see it fine. Enable showdead in your account preferences.
  - dane-pgp 6y ago
    Then who was phone?

GeorgeRichard 6y ago

"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism." The Communist Manifesto

mleonhard 6y ago

Is there a symbol for fascism?

deleted 6y ago
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djur 6y ago
There are swastikas facing both directions as religious symbols, but not angled Hakenkreuz like the Nazis tended to use. There also isn't a fasces or anything like that, although I feel like that's a less widely recognized symbol (and of course it is used in non-fascist contexts as well). Probably the most interesting political symbol in Unicode is the Emblem of Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Iran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Iran It's referred to officially as "FARSI SYMBOL", which apparently was a euphemism chosen because during ISO standardization of Unicode the original name "SYMBOL OF IRAN" was deemed unacceptable. As a logo, it wouldn't make it into the standard today, but nobody knows how it originally got in there: http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/01/29/363208.html http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/01/29/36320...
- riffraff 6y ago
  The Celtic cross is also there, tho tipically represented as asymmetrical, while the one used in fascist context is symmetrical.
redis_mlc 6y ago
W: "The Italian term fascismo is derived from fascio meaning "a bundle of sticks", ultimately from the Latin word fasces. The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: a single rod is easily broken, while the bundle is difficult to break." So just look for a farming-related item with 2 or more stick-like objects bound together. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism