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Re:☃ by jonknee on Sunday October 12, 2008 @02:14PM (#330426)
He should start a webmail service--imagine trying to give out an email address @☃.net.
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Re:☃ by tdavis on Sunday October 12, 2008 @11:46PM (#330714)
"Yeah, my e-mail address is tom at indifferent-snowman-wearing-a-fez.net"
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Re:☃ by netcan on Sunday October 12, 2008 @07:47PM (#330566)
The email address formerly known as gmail.

And then maybe, a few years down the line 'the address'

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Re:☃ by mcormier on Sunday October 12, 2008 @06:23PM (#330529)
I hereby declare this historic event the start of Web 3.0 ;)
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Re:☃ by netcan on Sunday October 12, 2008 @07:33PM (#330559)
Well, we have a crash. Why not have a web 3.0?

Everyone from now on can have smiley face domain names.

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Re:☃ by tdavis on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:33AM (#330857)
3.0? That's doing a great disservice to Indifferent Snowman Wearing Fez! This is at least Web 42.0
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Re:☃ by antiismist on Sunday October 12, 2008 @02:01PM (#330414)
how do you register a domain name with a unicode character in it?
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Re:☃ by ivank on Sunday October 12, 2008 @02:10PM (#330422)
It's really just http://xn--n3h.net/

http://mct.verisign-grs.com/conversiontool/convertServlet?in... converted it to PUNYCODE.

Your browser needs support for IDN to make this work; in Firefox it's the option network.enableIDN

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Re:☃ by petercooper on Sunday October 12, 2008 @08:59PM (#330626)
Anyone else noticed how rather rude that character looks at a small size when viewing on the HN front page? ;-)
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Re:☃ by reazalun on Sunday October 12, 2008 @11:28PM (#330706)
Why is that the same unicode character, in the same machine, can has two (or maybe more) different designs? Check this screenshot: http://i38.tinypic.com/2pqqntj.jpg

(FF, Windows XP)

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Re:☃ by shiro on Monday October 13, 2008 @02:04AM (#330820)
Unicode specifies a "character", which is somewhat an abstract entity and is different from "glyph", which is a visual representation of the character. One character can be mapped to different glyphs. Usually glyphs are determined by fontset. In your case I assume glyphs of the snowman character in the fontset for the text entry and in the fontset for the text display are different.

It is a common experience for East Asians; the same CJK kanji character sometimes has different glyphs for Chinese and Japanese. It is still quite a hassle to fix all fontset to show them right (I gave up.)

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Re:☃ by ivankirigin on Sunday October 12, 2008 @02:14PM (#330424)
I remember reading how paypal.com with unicode was a big problem for a while.
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Re:☃ by mynameishere on Sunday October 12, 2008 @10:31PM (#330678)
Am I missing the joke here?
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Re:☃ by dill_day on Monday October 13, 2008 @01:57AM (#330817)
I'm sort of confused as well it was kind of cool and amusing but I don't really understand why it has had so many votes all day...
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Re:☃ by compay on Sunday October 12, 2008 @11:51PM (#330718)
Yes.
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Re:☃ by mynameishere on Monday October 13, 2008 @01:26AM (#330796)
So...what's the joke?
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Re:☃ by davidw on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:36AM (#330861)
Something about this site jumping the shark.
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Re:☃ by netcan on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:16AM (#330851)
it's very funny
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Re:☃ by mynameishere on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:23AM (#330853)
lulz I get it now!!
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Re:☃ by iigs on Sunday October 12, 2008 @09:18PM (#330637)
That snowman is a real square.

For me on Windows XP:

Google Chrome: Square (Fail)

IE7: Square (Fail)

Opera 9.52: Snowman (Pass)

Firefox 2.x: Snowman (Pass)

I don't know a lot about unicode, does anyone know if there is a solution to the "I'm doing the obvious wrong thing by rendering an incorrect glyph" problem? It seems like it would be pretty cool to have rendering engines report back code points that they were unable to render, allowing the application to signal to the user that something is wrong, or even better yet, offer to launch a service to find a font that has that code point.

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Re:☃ by xccx on Sunday October 12, 2008 @03:30PM (#330460)
we're pre alpha testing a practical application of unicode if anyone's interested.. the tool uses intertubes to help ourselves learn more language.. it'll get better when we learn how to incorporate IDN.. no, we're not that smart yet, but yes, we are open source :)
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Re:☃ by wmf on Sunday October 12, 2008 @03:00PM (#330437)
I thought Arc didn't support Unicode. Maybe it just passes through.
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Re:☃ by ivank on Sunday October 12, 2008 @03:04PM (#330444)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111100
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Re:☃ by aaronsw on Sunday October 12, 2008 @03:02PM (#330438)
That's the beauty of UTF-8.
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Re:☃ by jrockway on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:42AM (#330863)
Until you treat the string as a list of characters instead of as a list of octets. Then you corrupt your data horribly.
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Re:☃ by aaronsw on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:38PM (#331416)
That's the horror of UTF-8.
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Re:☃ by crux on Sunday October 12, 2008 @11:57PM (#330723)
At text size it looks more like BADGER TRIUMPHANT.
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Re:☃ by apgwoz on Sunday October 12, 2008 @05:46PM (#330515)
On a different note, I guess this means arc now supports unicode? I haven't been keeping up with the latest.
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Re:☃ by charlesju on Monday October 13, 2008 @03:10AM (#330849)
lol this is so cool, i had no idea unicode was so "creative"
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Re:☃ by jmtame on Sunday October 12, 2008 @01:51PM (#330410)
☃ FTW
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Re:☃ by CUViper on Sunday October 12, 2008 @02:03PM (#330417)
Would have been cooler using UTF-8 in the source. HTML escape feels like cheating.

E2 98 83 FTW

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Re:☃ by steadicat on Sunday October 12, 2008 @03:14PM (#330453)
Here's an example of the snowman with UTF-8: http://unicoders.org/.
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Re:☃ by DavidSJ on Sunday October 12, 2008 @06:01PM (#330523)
So I guess this is it for Hacker News?
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Re:☃ by ezmobius on Sunday October 12, 2008 @02:07PM (#330420)
thats a killer domain name ;)
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