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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




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.


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)


Shame this doesn't work in zsh.


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

edit: It appears (?) stock linux fonts don't include emoji.


echo 🍤


fried!


> "INVISIBLE TIMES"

Sounds like a Muse song title


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.


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.


I love that link example xD I never thought of doing that!




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