amptorn

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1. 211.▲
   by amptorn 11y ago

   "Free software projects with terrible names" is a long, long rabbit hole.
2. 212.▲
   by amptorn 11y ago

   If screen area is your metric, and combining code points are free, I bet you could use [1] to add an arbitrary amount of data to a single character. [1] http://www.eeemo.net/
3. 213.▲
   by amptorn 11y ago

   Well, null, to start with. Other ASCII control characters. Consecutive line breaks, too.
4. 214.▲
   by amptorn 11y ago

   > Base65536 that isn't actually 65536? Odd. Well, Base64 isn't actually 64 either.
5. 215.▲
   by amptorn 11y ago

   This is dangerous through, because sending a Unicode string through Twitter subjects it to NFC normalization which can alter its structure. If you want guarantees that this won't happen, your choices of code point are far more constrai