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Do you mean Punycode, or this joke?
Punycode is the joke
DNS is the joke, punycode is one of the punchlines. ;-)
Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
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Re: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
#82It took me a while to get the joke because I didn't recognize that white ghost on a white background. I take this as another example why these non-ascii urls are a bad idea for security.
It's not white, it's the blueish grey #E1E8ED. You need a better monitor :)
Not everyone has near perfect vision, in which case a better monitor won't fix too much if contrast is bad.
Re: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
#83It took me a while to get the joke because I didn't recognize that white ghost on a white background. I take this as another example why these non-ascii urls are a bad idea for security.
It's not white, it's the blueish grey #E1E8ED. You need a better monitor :)
"being a better consumer is the answer" no thanks
Re: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
#84Re: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
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It's not white, it's the blueish grey #E1E8ED. You need a better monitor :)
Fails all contrast measures abysmally: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23E1E8ED-on-white And this is despite that fact that the actual "font color" is #14171A with excellent contrast: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%2314171A-on-white But these bizarre characters don't respond the text color and thus utterly unpredictable in their legibility.
The use of the color is quite different from a regular character, so measuring by the same yardstick makes no sense. This is a blob of color, not just some thin lines.
> these bizarre characters
At least on Twitter.com, they're not characters, they're SVG images.
Re: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
#86Interesting, both Chrome and Firefox seem to show the Punycode encoding after I enter the emoji in the URL for me. Do browsers always show the Punycode encoding, or do they show the encoded glyphs only in some scenarios? I can't find examples of Punycode in the wild used by normal websites.
I believe the config of which glyphs to show depends on the TLD. There is a hardcoded list of which character ranges are acceptable per TLD, and if any characters are outside those ranges, the xn-- form is shown instead.
Re: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
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On Mac, Control+Command+Space brings up the emoji picker. Every OS has something like that these days, I'm pretty sure.
Hmm, so i have to press ctrl+cmd+space then scroll through the picker or type at least "gh" to find that particular emoji. Pretty once or twice I guess.
Until it goes into your frequently accessed sites list, which as a dev, I imagine it would.
Re: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
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It's not white, it's the blueish grey #E1E8ED. You need a better monitor :)
Fails all contrast measures abysmally: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23E1E8ED-on-white And this is despite that fact that the actual "font color" is #14171A with excellent contrast: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%2314171A-on-white But these bizarre characters don't respond the text color and thus utterly unpredictable in their legibility.
> Fails all contrast measures abysmally: https://contrast-ratio.com/#%23E1E8ED-on-white
At first, I was thinking that I could see the difference quite clearly between the two colors and I had no clue what you were talking about. Then I hit the "swap colors" button and happened to notice that there was a bunch of text on the left side that I hadn't even seen...
Re: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
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Hmm, so i have to press ctrl+cmd+space then scroll through the picker or type at least "gh" to find that particular emoji. Pretty once or twice I guess.
Until it goes into your frequently accessed sites list, which as a dev, I imagine it would.
Only if you're a web dev :)
Re: Add '127.0.0.1 xn–9q8h' to /etc/hosts gives you "localghost"
#90Ghost in the shell...