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Look, strings are complicated.

2025-02-12

156.

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji

In fact, you can encode data in any unicode character. This sentence has a hidden message󠅟󠅘󠄐󠅝󠅩󠄜󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠄐󠅖󠅟󠅥󠅞󠅔󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠄐󠅘󠅙󠅔󠅔󠅕󠅞󠄐󠅝󠅕󠅣󠅣󠅑󠅗󠅕󠄐󠅙󠅞󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅕󠅨󠅤󠄑. (Try pasting it into the decoder)

2024-01-22

104.

Shapecatcher

shapecatcher.com

Allows you to find Unicode characters by drawing them.

2023-11-25

33.

Text Rendering Hates You

faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you
32.

Breaking Our Latin-1 Assumptions

manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/15/breaking-our-latin-1-assumptions
31.

Let's Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points

manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-meaning-to-unicode-code-points
30.

It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7

hsivonen.fi/string-length