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Comment by simlevesque | Hacker News Reader

Hacker news blocks emojis, it should do the same for "vermaden"

Even worse, in Firefox, I see the title of the submission appear to be on a newline underneath the upvote arrow. The special characters are making the height of the div to be 33px

http://i.imgur.com/nuA4TBe.png

In my Firefox, I see 2 newlines above and 2 newlines beneath...

Version 83.0 on Arch Linux

Indeed, this is what I see https://i.imgur.com/jVWhV49.png with Arch's Firefox 83.0 on Parabola (downstream of Arch).

It seems that the issue is the "LatinModernMathJax_Monospace-Regular" font being broken. This font is part of the "mathjax2" package, which is a dependency of my PDF reader.

For my own learning, the poster "vermanden" is (ab)using the U+1F600 to U+1F6FF table of Mayan/mathematical symbols (except for the first right arrow, it's another set) which you can reference here: https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl

It breaks down like so in hex mode:

    E2 80 93 20 ->
    F0 9D 9A 9F v
    F0 9D 9A 8E e
    F0 9D 9A 9B r
    F0 9D 9A 96 m
    F0 9D 9A 8A a
    F0 9D 9A 8D d
    F0 9D 9A 8E e
    F0 9D 9A 97 n

I used 'generator' from here: http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=vermaden

Thanks for sharing.

Kinda funny to see a simplistic and technology embracing site like HN 'broken' due to insufficient input sanitization ;-)

Surely the "Mathematical Monospace" set of characters have merit in being allowed on HN, this misuse of them notwithstanding?

People should simply use characters in correct ways and not in incorrect ways.

what does that even mean?

Agreed. Let’s avoid avoid becoming another Twitter please

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