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My simple, clean ampersand (&) became a paperclip (0x1f4ce), a "fried shrimp" (0x1f364), several species of geometric triangle, and dozens of other silly, silly

by uvdiv 14y ago

My simple, clean ampersand (&) became a paperclip (0x1f4ce), a "fried shrimp" (0x1f364), several species of geometric triangle, and dozens of other silly, silly glyphs. http://i.imgur.com/NLkl75J.png http://i.imgur.com/NLkl75J.png the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist??? http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf Latest Abstruse Goose comic sums up my emotional response: http://abstrusegoose.com/496 http://abstrusegoose.com/496

nwh 14y ago
Who doesn't love 🍤? There's lot of other strange Unicode too. There's things like '⁢' (U2062 INVISIBLE TIMES), ⓞⓓⓓ ©ⓗⓐⓡⓐ©ⓣⓔⓡ ⓢⓔⓣⓢ and sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uʍop ǝpısdn. All of which can be used to bypass filters and generally cause browser-crashing havoc. For example, this address looks like Google, but it really links to hacker news. ‮http://news.ycombinator.com/?/moc.elgoog//:ptth http://news.ycombinator.com/?/moc.elgoog//:ptth
- lloeki 14y ago
  > "INVISIBLE TIMES" Sounds like a Muse song title
  - nwh 14y ago
    I've never been able to work out if it is an invisible ⨉ character, or a character meant for use when things are invisible. Either way works for Muse I suppose.
    - taejo 14y ago
      It's for mathematics. Some kind of math markup may want to distinguish x times y written xy from a two-letter variable called xy. So the product is x<invisible times>y but is rendered xy.
- uvdiv 14y ago
  Who doesn't love 🍤? I just discovered the OS X terminal renders the friend shrimp glyph in color! edit: and it's now my $PS1.
  - deleted 14y ago
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  - speeder 14y ago
    Yes, I tested pasting "🍤" to my OSX, and was surprised by a color rendering of a friend shrimp. (yes, you can copy the character between "" and paste in your OSX terminal)
    - decad 14y ago
      Shame this doesn't work in zsh.
      - uvdiv 14y ago
        Why wouldn't it work on zsh? The font face is a property of the terminal emulator (e.g. xterm, Terminal.app), not the shell. http://i.imgur.com/RKTOBKe.png http://i.imgur.com/RKTOBKe.png edit: It appears (?) stock linux fonts don't include emoji.
      - wahnfrieden 14y ago
        echo 🍤
    - Raphael 14y ago
      fried!
- Groxx 14y ago
  I love that link example xD I never thought of doing that!
uvdiv 14y ago
Experiments with some common glyphs. (!) -- 8th suggestion, after three apparently identical "upside-down 'i'" (including an "upside-down capital 'I' with a dot underneath") (@) -- 1st suggestion (#) -- not suggested. Top suggestion is "capital 'H' with stroke" ($) -- not suggested, although the 14th is an indistinguishable glyph "Canadian syllabics carrier sh" 0x165a, a phoenetic symbol for representing a Canadian aboriginal language. (%) -- 1st suggestion (^) -- 10th suggestion, to be fair this one is impossible (&) -- not suggested (fried shrimp lol) (*) -- 3rd suggestion (?) -- 1st suggestion (∫) -- 1st suggestion (∂) -- 4th suggestion (1st one is same thing in boldface) ---------- This is suggests a really easy way to greatly improve the results: weight them by a prior probability (i.e., frequency of occurrence in a letter count). The OCR itself seems pretty good. Common math symbols are more likely than silly shrimps. Glyphs from common languages are more probable than esoteric ones, and real languages more than constructed ones. Plain glyphs are more common than variants (bold/italic) -- and these should be grouped together anyway. fried shrimp horseshoe.
- macleodan 14y ago
  Why would you use this tool to lookup common characters found on your keyboard? Maybe a better idea is to show uncommon characters first.
  - quirm 14y ago
    Exactly, this is why priors for latin alpha characters are not set that high - you have them on your keyboard already.
- peapicker 14y ago
  $#& - all were my first suggestion... perhaps I draw them better than you do? :)
  - Raphael 14y ago
    dollar sign works if you draw the vertical line all the way through.
  - 14y ago
dexen 14y ago
http://kyon.pl/img/18939,unicode,lol,inside_joke,.html http://kyon.pl/img/18939,unicode,lol,inside_joke,.html
masklinn 14y ago
> the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist??? A softbank-based Emoji set was imported (in an extended form) into Unicode 6.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Emoji_in_the_Unicode_standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Emoji_in_the_Unicode_stan... Because Emoji originated in japan messaging, a number of them relate to japanese culture: foodstuff (not just fried shrimp but rice balls, dango, oden, fugu), cultural practices (kadomatsu, hinamatsuri, koinobori, Fūrin wind chimes) and other such things which may be present in other cultures but usually not as prominently (e.g. Unicode Love Hotel)

by uvdiv 14y ago

nwh 14y ago

Who doesn't love 🍤? There's lot of other strange Unicode too. There's things like '⁢' (U2062 INVISIBLE TIMES), ⓞⓓⓓ ©ⓗⓐⓡⓐ©ⓣⓔⓡ ⓢⓔⓣⓢ and sɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ uʍop ǝpısdn. All of which can be used to bypass filters and generally cause browser-crashing havoc. For example, this address looks like Google, but it really links to hacker news. ‮http://news.ycombinator.com/?/moc.elgoog//:ptth http://news.ycombinator.com/?/moc.elgoog//:ptth

lloeki 14y ago
> "INVISIBLE TIMES" Sounds like a Muse song title
- nwh 14y ago
  I've never been able to work out if it is an invisible ⨉ character, or a character meant for use when things are invisible. Either way works for Muse I suppose.
  - taejo 14y ago
    It's for mathematics. Some kind of math markup may want to distinguish x times y written xy from a two-letter variable called xy. So the product is x<invisible times>y but is rendered xy.
uvdiv 14y ago
Who doesn't love 🍤? I just discovered the OS X terminal renders the friend shrimp glyph in color! edit: and it's now my $PS1.
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]
- speeder 14y ago
  Yes, I tested pasting "🍤" to my OSX, and was surprised by a color rendering of a friend shrimp. (yes, you can copy the character between "" and paste in your OSX terminal)
  - decad 14y ago
    Shame this doesn't work in zsh.
    - uvdiv 14y ago
      Why wouldn't it work on zsh? The font face is a property of the terminal emulator (e.g. xterm, Terminal.app), not the shell. http://i.imgur.com/RKTOBKe.png http://i.imgur.com/RKTOBKe.png edit: It appears (?) stock linux fonts don't include emoji.
    - wahnfrieden 14y ago
      echo 🍤
  - Raphael 14y ago
    fried!
Groxx 14y ago
I love that link example xD I never thought of doing that!

uvdiv 14y ago

Experiments with some common glyphs. (!) -- 8th suggestion, after three apparently identical "upside-down 'i'" (including an "upside-down capital 'I' with a dot underneath") (@) -- 1st suggestion (#) -- not suggested. Top suggestion is "capital 'H' with stroke" ($) -- not suggested, although the 14th is an indistinguishable glyph "Canadian syllabics carrier sh" 0x165a, a phoenetic symbol for representing a Canadian aboriginal language. (%) -- 1st suggestion (^) -- 10th suggestion, to be fair this one is impossible (&) -- not suggested (fried shrimp lol) (*) -- 3rd suggestion (?) -- 1st suggestion (∫) -- 1st suggestion (∂) -- 4th suggestion (1st one is same thing in boldface) ---------- This is suggests a really easy way to greatly improve the results: weight them by a prior probability (i.e., frequency of occurrence in a letter count). The OCR itself seems pretty good. Common math symbols are more likely than silly shrimps. Glyphs from common languages are more probable than esoteric ones, and real languages more than constructed ones. Plain glyphs are more common than variants (bold/italic) -- and these should be grouped together anyway. fried shrimp horseshoe.

macleodan 14y ago
Why would you use this tool to lookup common characters found on your keyboard? Maybe a better idea is to show uncommon characters first.
- quirm 14y ago
  Exactly, this is why priors for latin alpha characters are not set that high - you have them on your keyboard already.
peapicker 14y ago
$#& - all were my first suggestion... perhaps I draw them better than you do? :)
- Raphael 14y ago
  dollar sign works if you draw the vertical line all the way through.
- 14y ago

dexen 14y ago

http://kyon.pl/img/18939,unicode,lol,inside_joke,.html http://kyon.pl/img/18939,unicode,lol,inside_joke,.html

masklinn 14y ago

> the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist??? A softbank-based Emoji set was imported (in an extended form) into Unicode 6.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Emoji_in_the_Unicode_standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Emoji_in_the_Unicode_stan... Because Emoji originated in japan messaging, a number of them relate to japanese culture: foodstuff (not just fried shrimp but rice balls, dango, oden, fugu), cultural practices (kadomatsu, hinamatsuri, koinobori, Fūrin wind chimes) and other such things which may be present in other cultures but usually not as prominently (e.g. Unicode Love Hotel)