Damn that looks good, it worked for me for ② and u with umlauts.
Get the Japanese support in there and it will be amazing. What about using MS Mincho or MS Gothic for that? (It is free as in beer, but is the licensing off?)
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#12It recognized my drawing of a cactus! http://i.imgur.com/pDgIOPk.png
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#13Couldn't get it to find the unicode snowman[1]: http://i.imgur.com/gaIY9Gd.png (my drawing skills are awesome, no?) But that aside, this looks like a neat idea. Not something I have any immediate use for myself, but could certainly be useful in some situations. [1] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm
Can someone tell me why 'Cat with a wry smile' is in Unicode? Presumably at some point someone thought that it would be useful to somebody else, hence it's inclusion. It would be very interesting to hear the back-story behind such seemingly useless glyphs.
These are Emoji: it's a set of smileys/icons originally used by Japanese carriers. Apple included them in their iPhone, and in order to standardise them they (successfully) requested they were added to Unicode.
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#14It recognized my drawing of a cactus! http://i.imgur.com/pDgIOPk.png
Damn. I think it's not intended as a cactus. Hahaha.
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#16(surprisingly noone said this) Too bad it doesn't generate links to drawing results.
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#17My 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
the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist???
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf
Latest Abstruse Goose comic sums up my emotional response:
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#18It recognized my drawing of a cactus! http://i.imgur.com/pDgIOPk.png
This is seriously the funniest thing I've seen on HN in weeks. Made me actually laugh.
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#19My 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 the unicode block containing "fried shrimp" 0x1f364 -- why does this exist??? http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf Latest Abstruse Goose comic sums up my emotional response: http://abstrusegoose.com/496
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.
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#20Sadly it didn't recognize my clumsy attempt to draw the Look of Disapproval: http://i.imgur.com/0lvPFaJ.png
On the upside, I learned that there is a Panda Face unicode character.