9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
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Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
#2I don't think risking url rendered as unicode boxes justifies the reduction of the url by 2 or 3 characters.
Nice proof of concept though.
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#3I'll be screwed if I ever have to retype the short URL. So no good for printing on packaging.
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#4Personally, I think this is awesome. If widely adopted it might to help ferret out all the software which still can't properly handle unicode urls (which is probably why it won't be widely adopted). :)
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#5You should combine this with the trick Tinyarrows is doing since 2008: the domain name is a single Unicode character; I guess Punycode FTW :)
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#6http://tinyarrows.com/ has existed for years and is actually shorter, i.e. http://➡.ws/鷇
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#7Probably should block the same domain from shortening.else you'll get something like http://9m.no/婀蒾 (multiple redirects)
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Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
#9I don't think risking url rendered as unicode boxes justifies the reduction of the url by 2 or 3 characters. Nice proof of concept though.
Not only that, but since it will be encoded in utf-8 and then percent-encoded the number of bytes transmitted will actually increase:
something as simple as 邗諾
becomes %E9%82%97%E8%AB%BE , 18 characters!
Still, as other mentioned it's a neat idea that if widespread would make all kinds of encoding mistakes pop up :)
Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age
#10I got http://9m.no/𑂜൭ for my daughter's website, but I'm wondering whether this helps shrink character count when used for services like twitter. It's not at all readable, but since it's two (I think) 4-byte unicode characters, will that URL be counted as 13 characters or 21 characters?