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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) (tonsky.me)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

๐–„๐–”๐–š ๐–˜๐–”๐–—๐–™ ๐–”๐–‹ ๐–Š๐–“๐–‰ ๐–š๐–• ๐–๐–†๐–›๐–Ž๐–“๐–Œ ๐–‹๐–”๐–“๐–™๐–˜ ๐–Š๐–’๐–‡๐–Š๐–‰๐–‰๐–Š๐–‰ ๐–Ž๐–“ ๐–™๐–๐–Š ๐–Š๐–“๐–ˆ๐–”๐–‰๐–Ž๐–“๐–Œ. ๐•ด ๐–š๐–“๐–‰๐–Š๐–—๐–˜๐–™๐–†๐–“๐–‰ ๐–œ๐–๐–ž ๐–Ž๐–™ ๐–๐–†๐–•๐–•๐–Š๐–“๐–˜, ๐•ด'๐–’ ๐–“๐–”๐–™ ๐–˜๐–†๐–ž๐–Ž๐–“๐–Œ ๐–Ž๐–™ ๐–˜๐–๐–”๐–š๐–‘๐–‰๐–“'๐–™, ๐–‡๐–š๐–™ ๐–Ž๐–™'๐–˜ ๐–˜๐–™๐–Ž๐–‘๐–‘ ๐–† ๐–œ๐–Š๐–Ž๐–—๐–‰ ๐–˜๐–Ž๐–‰๐–Š ๐–Š๐–‹๐–‹๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–™.

As normal letters in case your screen cannot render it.You sort of end up having fonts embedded in the encoding. I understand why it happens, I'm not saying it shouldn't, but it's still a weird side effect.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And it risks sites like this entering an arms race for attention-grabbing bullshit, where every post tries not to look like plain text. This didn't really happen to reddit because the old guard (hello) were curmudgeons. Happened to Craigslist and eBay, though, where the attention-whore behavior is directly monetized.