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Re:Database character sets and collations explained – why ut... by kingcharles on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:18PM (#29827475)
I had to Google ⁂ as I've never seen that character before. Fascinating! It makes a nice Christmas snowflake stand-in.

I wonder what HN's rules are with sanitizing Unicode, as they won't allow emojis?

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Re:Database character sets and collations explained – why ut... by chrismorgan on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:32PM (#29833510)
I use “—⁂—” as my horizontal rule in plain text, via my Compose key (Compose+h+r).

HN removes things that are officially marked as emoji, normalises whitespace to space (which annoys me because I sometimes want to type things like narrow no-break space in equations which it makes wider and loses the no-breakyness of), and that’s all I’ve noticed. Control characters probably get some treatment or other too.

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