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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 http

by 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?