I love this stack exchange post about someone who set a password that included emoji, and had to resort to using UTF-16 surrogate pairs to login.

K had been reading "The Goldfinch" and some of the characters speak Polish and she noticed one said "Dziȩkujȩ" ("thank you") which is TOTALLY WRONG because the diacritics on the "e"s are supposed to be ogoneks and not cedillas. It seems odd how you'd even make that mistake. I know if I were writing a novel with a foreign-to-me language in it I ( Read more... )

Fellow language nerds: are you aware of such important unicode characters such as

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My friends Spoons and Copic are the awesomest. They just got married at D's six pax and dogz tonight, with lincoln3 officiating. I understand that they have been as close as 0 and dx for something like nine years now, and that it's the likelihood of Copic getting a job at with particle accelerator experiments in Foreign Parts that meant that actually ( Read more... )