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Re:The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman by dlsspy on Thursday December 23, 2010 @04:56PM (#2035988)
I wonder how many twitter clients are going to recognize that as a link: http://twitter.com/#!/dlsspy/status/18062117684903937

Twitter itself does, but tweetdeck does not.

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Re:The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman by rythie on Thursday December 23, 2010 @05:28PM (#2036068)
FriendBinder does, I remember fixing it for the http://tinyarro.ws link shortner
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Re:The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman by bradleyland on Thursday December 23, 2010 @07:10PM (#2036254)
I don't know about twitter clients, but Google Reader makes a mess out of it in the HN RSS feed.
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Re:The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman by ubernostrum on Friday December 24, 2010 @06:34AM (#2037099)
For real fun, try this one: http://twitter.com/#!/apag/status/1260699996
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Re:The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman by mambodog on Thursday December 23, 2010 @05:35PM (#2036077)
That is how the names are represented to the DNS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#T...

I believe this is abstracted at the browser level.

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Re:The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman by infinity on Thursday December 23, 2010 @05:51PM (#2036109)
Twhirl does not display all the necessary characters, but posting the URL is possible. It did not convert into a clickable link on identi.ca.
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