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I’m surprised filtering out those characters (and emoji) isn’t more popular. Most of the time a site allows users to enter arbitrary text, those characters are
by pwdisswordfish8 5y ago
I’m surprised filtering out those characters (and emoji) isn’t more popular.
Most of the time a site allows users to enter arbitrary text, those characters are used for nothing but abuse and undue attention grabbing.
- tyingq 5y agoHN's filtering is odd this way. They filter out a lot of unicode, but let some things through, like: ⏯ ⏮ ⏭ ⏧ ⏦ Other interesting comments about emoji/unicode on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21703050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21703050