I just copy-pasted one of these links to skype. Encoding issues ensued. Everything is just a rectangle and when you click it, it gives an alertbox with:
Low surrogate char without a preceeding high surrogate char at index: 9. Check that the string is encoded properly.
It seems like Unicode support is still broken in many places.
It's definitely still broken in my browser. This is just "two rectangles dot ws" for me.
Chrome 43.0.2357.130 on Debian Sid. You'd think this sort of thing was rare but IME it's commonplace, not least because the average user doesn't really understand font rendering. For example I have no clue where in the stack the error that's causing me to see two rectangles is, and no motivation to sift through arcane documentation to try to sort it out.
I pasted it into Skype and it appeared fine, but the person who received it got a bunch of blocks. Had the same issue when clicking it though. Wonder if skype version has anything to do with it? Using 7.5.0.102 myself.
I was wondering what was the motivation behind "pizza-poo.ws" and the author refers to Linkmoji as "aka pizza-poo" on his Twitter[1]. There are no details on the choice though :)
i wrote this link shortener... similar idea, but you actually get to choose your emoji mix... which i call a shizz
lemme know what you think! try it out... i think its a little buggy.. i had major challenges getting utf-8 stream encoding working properly on my AWS image with MySQL, but it mostly works :)
Not true, the new gTLD program allows Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs), e.g. the Japanese .みんな (minna, "everyone"). The ASCII label is not the same as the TLD itself.
that was my inspiration for http://shizz.it
shizz.it allows people to create http://👿.shizz.it or any other emoji character mix, as a subdomain, which is then redirected to any other URL. Thus link forwarding.
By making use of emoji in subdomains, you can get around the restriction of no emoji in domains or TLDs.
It's just a link shortener, but using Emoji instead of alphabetical characters. Nothing prevents you from using non-conventional digits for some number base. If I want to, I could make "abcdefghij" be the digits for zero through nine in base ten.
If the domain is what surprises you, that's not new. Internationalised Domain Names have been around for a while now, and support any Unicode character (with registrar restrictions to prevent phishing etc.)
Low surrogate char without a preceeding high surrogate char at index: 9. Check that the string is encoded properly.
It seems like Unicode support is still broken in many places.