MetaFilter posts tagged with unicode

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The Whelk — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:48:50 -0800

Newmoticons: Fresh new emoticons for happy internet people.

☃ [unicode table for you]

not_on_display — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:36:29 -0800

⍾ LI'L MUSHROOM GUY
⎌ LEAP-FROGGIN' O's
☣☮ BIOHAZARDOUS HIPPIE WARNING
∰ THREE VIOLINS SHARING HULA HOOP
☃ Unicode table for you: with sliders to help you whiz through all those characters you didn't even know you had. ☃
⫷ All symbols in the table have links underneath them which lead to active Wikipedia Pages. ⫸
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Taking URL Shortening Further

filthy light thief — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:18:24 -0800

There are few ways to make URL shortening any shorter, given the 90+ URL shortening sites available, unless you get tricky. Tinyarro.ws uses two tricks to further shorten URLs, and greatly expand the theoretical limit to short URLs: international domain names and unicode character encoding. [via mefi projects] Though international domain names are widely supported, and the threat of IDN spoofs has passed, unicode domain names can get messy, as there can be display problems at the operating system level and browser level. Setting up unicode fonts can clear some of those problems, but the issue of URL shortening service longevity is still a concern, with shortened URLs in printed publications and not just tweets or IMs.

In case your system's fonts don't support the snowman.

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:15:23 -0800

Decodeunicode.org has a useful and full-featured search for the names and glyphs for those Unicode characters that display as a plain box full of despair. It is presented by the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. Roll the dice ⚅⚄ and try it out. I hear if you know the secret hexadecimal number you can find an Obama glyph. Comment with the funniest candidate wins the internet.

unicode snowman for you

not_on_display — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:24:46 -0800

☃ [unicode snowman for you] (thanks, finite)

Bloated Wikipedia Pages

brain_drain — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:42:35 -0800

The 8 Most Needlessly-Detailed Wikipedia Entries

Flippin'...

progosk — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:09:49 -0800

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?Backwards Day!

loquacious — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:56:15 -0800

?Let today - the eleventh day of the twelfth month - henceforth and forever be Backwards Day! ?Fun with Unicode
Via the wonderfully nerdy 74 68 65 20 64 69 67 69 74 61 6C 20 6D 65.??‭

It doesn't do Tibetan

Pretty_Generic — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:25:02 -0800

Sick of ▯? Try Code2000.

My ideal wallpaper

wanderingmind — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:03:20 -0800

What does all of Unicode look like? At once, as a poster? Ian Albert decided to find out... No full image of the whole thing, sadly (but understandably, given its 22,017x42,807 resolution).