Re: Amusing use of Unicode

From: John Burger (john@mitre.org)
Date: Fri Mar 13 2009 - 11:03:52 CST

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    Adam Twardoch wrote:

    > John Burger wrote:
    >> tinyarro version (...) certainly cannot be written down
    >> and typed in later. Amusing, indeed, but I see it as little more.
    >
    > are you saying that the whole concept of Unicode does not make sense?
    > (Because I don't see why your criticism of "cannot be written down and
    > typed in later" should just be restricted to URLs).

    Of course you're right - I'm being terribly ethnocentric. I should
    simply have said that =I= can't transport such URLs on paper.

    I will say, however, that I have no idea whether arro.ws restricts
    itself to visually unambiguous characters. If it happily produces all
    of these for different source URLs:

    http://➡.ws/-
    http://➡.ws/−
    http://➡.ws/
    http://➡.ws/－
    http://➡.ws/‒
    http://➡.ws/–
    http://➡.ws/—
    http://➡.ws/―
    http://➡.ws/﹘

    then it would be very difficult to reliably write them down and enter
    them later.

    - John D. Burger
       MITRE

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