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Not to pee in your Xmas punch, but this -

    @font-face {
        font-family: Arial Unicode MS;
        font-style:  normal;
        font-weight: normal;
        src: url(http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/ARIALUN0.eot);
    }

most certainly violates Microsoft's font EULA.

Unicode Consortium is such an odd organization. Why is a snowman in the symbol table when the universal On/Off symbol isn't? What about the USB symbol?

Snowman is in table because of weather (like ☂ and some other symbols). I would like to understand what cats and dogs are doing in unicode: 😾 😸 🐶 (I kind of like that Mac OS X is using images for these)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

The Unicode Consortium added most of the commonly supported emoji (picture-characters: http://wap2.jp/emoji/imode/?act=list) from Japanese cell phones to the list of glyphs Unicode supports. As a result, if something was socially important enough to make it into early generations of featurephones in Japan back in the day, it is now in Unicode.

Cats/dogs made the cut, along with a bunch of characters which are a bit more esoteric by Western standards, such as a pictograph representing hot springs or the silhouette of Mt. Fuji. Many American programmers of my acquaintance believe U+1F4A9 (pile of poo) got grandfathered in at the same time, but they are historically mistaken. Japanese phones didn't have the pile of poo until much later.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/75vt6/unicode_s...

Can someone explain why this is interesting? I must be missing something.

For the same reasons why Star Wars, hacking using UTF-7 or mysterious J in e-mails from Outlook...

http://chrisjean.com/2009/02/06/mystery-of-the-email-j-final...

Pisses me off to no end that even my Outlook 2010 can't get that right in the subject heading preview.

Well one interesting thing to consider is that Unicode could be abused to glue together weird and obscure symbols into the shape of words in English so you'll have a link that looks sort of like YourBankName.com but is actually x--213idsauaaslkda.com or some such.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/unicode_url_h...

> Here's a demo: it's a Web page that appears to be www.paypal.com but is not PayPal. Everything from the address bar to the hover-over status on the link says www.paypal.com.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2742852/unicode-character...

Interesting. Shows OK in Firefox on Linux. Shows as a rectangle in Chrome on my Samsung Android phone with Chrome, and completely blank in the built-in browser on the same phone. I wonder why they're handling fonts so differently when in theory the font should be downloading.

I prefer http://☃.net/

...and even that can be used as an operator in Scala.

... and in Haskell too. The funny thing is, that i first read Snoyman instead of Snowman.

Yeah, if I were a snowman in Arabia I'd be pretty meh too.

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