Thai character ก็็็็็ (ก) gets rendered in a strange way

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87&aq=f&oq=%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87%E0%B9%87&aqs=chrome.0.57j61.897j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

by sprogcoder • 13 years ago

228 147 13 years ago

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sp3323• 13 years ago

That's not really a Thai character, right? It's way too many bytes! It must be an intentional repetition of stacking diacritics. Some of the ones in that Google result page are 21 bytes.

feee• 13 years ago

Yep. With the diacritics spaced out:

     ก ็ ็ ็ ็ ็

sprogcoder• 13 years ago

looks like this is the unicode in html

ก ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็ ็

kijeda• 13 years ago

Yes, it is "THAI CHARACTER KO KAI" (U+0E01), plus 20 occurrences of the non-spacing mark "THAI CHARACTER THAI CHARACTER MAITAIKHU" (U+0E47).

sp3323• 13 years ago

It's odd, but I think the HN title has only 5 of those marks. Does HN code limit the stacking?

masklinn2• 13 years ago

Indeed, pasting from the google input and investigating it's a single U+0E01 ก (THAI CHARACTER KO KAI) with 20 U+0E47 ็ (THAI CHARACTER MAITAIKHU), a diacritic.

hackerboos• 13 years ago

It's 2 characters.

Leynos2• 13 years ago

Something I wondered once: If one were to have a go at sanitizing Unicode input (e.g., for a forum), what would be a sensible limit on the number of diacritics to allow, without interfering with languages that need them?

mark-r• 13 years ago

I love StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11978912/how-to-protect-a...

trotsky• 13 years ago

   $ echo ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ | hexdump
   0000000 e0 b8 81 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0
   0000010 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9
   0000020 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87
   0000030 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 e0 b9 87 0a
   0000040
   $ echo ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ | wc
       1       1      64

tvirot• 13 years ago

It's definitely an intentional repetition of stacking diacritics. ก็ has a meaning in Thai, but not ก ็ ็ ็

pawelwentpawel• 13 years ago

This character used to be (or maybe still is) a very popular way of trolling people on facebook. Flooding chat window with those funny letters seemed to crash the browser after a while.

clone1018• 13 years ago

T̳͉̱ͯͩ͌͐ͮ͜ͅh̆͏̫̫̫̜̫a͇͕̮̘͉ͣͫ̑̀ͭtͩ̀ͪ̇̈ ͕̩͓̺͔ͤ͠w̼̘͒́̓͗o͏͕̱͉̠ủ̥̠̯̫͙͙͖ͧ̿l̮͓̣̣̥͂ͬ͟d̪̦̏ͩ̐͝ ̬̮̳̦̠ͫ̇͠b̴̄́e̮ͯ̇̂͂̚͠ ̱̬̄́̃̏͋̅z̷̰̞̙̼͓ͤ̏̐̈ȁ͍̫̽ͫ̌͐͌̆l̦͔̐̇ͧ̐̎͝ǧ̢̜̱ͯ͌ö̳̐ͤ͗̍̇ͅ

That would be zalgo: http://eeemo.net/

mnsc• 13 years ago

That doesn't render 100% for me, lots of square boxes.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zalgo

henrikschroder• 13 years ago

HE COMES, HE COMES!

patmcguire• 13 years ago

Once had this dude sign up for our page management... we had a lot of assumptions about plain or at least sane text that had to get updated. https://www.facebook.com/glitchr

josscrowcroft• 13 years ago

That is hilarious. Can't scroll down without it crashing the tab.

bazzargh• 13 years ago

There's a twitter account, glitchr which posts lots of these things: https://twitter.com/glitchr_

glitchr's tweets may cause other twitter clients to crash too, eg this one (you have been warned!) https://twitter.com/joshlogan42/status/303975029698342912

micampe• 13 years ago

Posted a million times already but timeless: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

praptak• 13 years ago

In cases like this it is useful to post a short description of the link. Like this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 (the famous "don't parse HTML with regex" cry for sanity, semi-relevant because of zalgo text.) FTFY

lhnz• 13 years ago

What on earth is going on here? 🔴҈҈҈҈̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚҉̚

masklinn2• 13 years ago

That's a pretty fun one. It's a sequence of the following codepoints: {LARGE RED CIRCLE} {COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN} {COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN} {COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN} {COMBINING CYRILLIC HUNDRED THOUSANDS SIGN} and then 66 repetitions of {COMBINING LEFT ANGLE ABOVE} {COMBINING CYRILLIC MILLIONS SIGN}

DanBC2• 13 years ago

Please add some spaces in the middle of that long line.

HN is now not wrapping long lines, because your unbroken long line has widened the margins.

ars• 13 years ago

It looks like this to me: http://i.imgur.com/qjKCL62.png

kalleboo• 13 years ago

I don't think it's supposed to be a long line. Here is how it shows here http://imgb.mp/i3b.jpg

Groxx• 13 years ago

Would you mind indenting that 2 spaces on its own line so it doesn't stretch the page out? (I see all square boxes, sadly, and it's pretty wide)

jQueryIsAwesome8• 13 years ago

Google, you are a company that makes billions of dolars and I'm nobody to tell you what to do buy maybe you should add this to your CSS:

    .st, a {
        display: inline-block;
        overflow: hidden;
    }

Hacker news should do the same thing but with .title, .comment and .comhead

mostlystatic• 13 years ago

What would that do?

kbrackbill2• 13 years ago

A bunch of stuff, but the important thing here is that it clips things above and below each line so things like this can't overlap other lines

ubershmekel• 13 years ago

Surprisingly it's actually the correct way to render that unicode. It's just a stack of upper diactrics http://jsbin.com/erajer/7/?%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%89%E0%B9%89%E0%B9... as explained in this stackoverflow answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10414864/whats-up-with-th...

jQueryIsAwesome8• 13 years ago

Technically "correct" you mean; if there was an unicode character that filled all the screen with the color black it would not matter if it were technically "correct", usability correct is more important.

one-man-bucket2• 13 years ago

I don't get what's supposed to happen. To me it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/CMwdLNg.png

stjarnljuset• 13 years ago

This is what it looks like for me: http://i.imgur.com/ppMYz6c.png

Tekker• 13 years ago

Same for me

sp3323• 13 years ago

What browser and platform are you using?

frozenport• 13 years ago

It seems to work on Firefox x64 19.0 from Gentoo eBuild.

one-man-bucket2• 13 years ago

chrome 25 and xubuntu 12.10

MBCook• 13 years ago

Works fine for me. Safari 6, OS X 10.8.

iy56• 13 years ago

With Opera 12.14, I saw the same thing. I had to open the page in Chrome to see the weirdness.

C1D2• 13 years ago

It seems to render right on your browser. This is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/gJ1xBWn.png

ajross• 13 years ago

It's actually more correct on your browser. It's a stack of diacritics. The rasterizer above was printing them on top of each other, which is (well, seems likely to be) typographically incorrect. The problem of course is that the implemented rules should disallow unused-in-the-real-world combinations of diacritics but don't.

But it's not a "rendering" bug.

morphics• 13 years ago

Same here, looks fine for me in Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu

drzaiusapelord• 13 years ago

Chrome on Windows 7 64-bit:

http://imgur.com/3u1M2IG

ambiate• 13 years ago

http://i.imgur.com/5ov1qdf.png

This is an interesting result. Even more interesting is the extra 2000 results that Google throws in my direction.

simcop2387• 13 years ago

I actually get a different rendering for some reason. I get all the extra diatricts to the right above empty circles. That certainly explains why I didn't quite understand the problem.

cataflam• 13 years ago

About the same for me : http://i.imgur.com/fOTopJU.png

Both Opera and Chrome on Windows XP. On windows 7 I get the interestingly looking results with both Opera and Chrome.

Gmo• 13 years ago

I have tested with Firefox (latest version) on Windows XP and 7, and I think we can conclude the problem comes from Windows XP, as it shows the same thing as you, whereas it gives a whole big stack on Windows 7.

orbitur• 13 years ago

Looks like it's only a problem on Windows (and maybe Linux?). OS X is fine, Chrome and Safari.

pmelendez• 13 years ago

It's interesting compare this across browsers http://imgur.com/a/0jxjj

claudius• 13 years ago

I guess Opera is just really, really boring [0,1].

[0] http://imgur.com/joMTxLm

[1] http://imgur.com/TEmOTPo

Socketubs• 13 years ago

How this character is rendered in Simcity ?

3dptz• 13 years ago

It's not

TwoBit• 13 years ago

Funny you mention this. We are working on support for this right now (today). EAWebKit, used by SimCity, didn't originally have Thai support, and it's being implemented now. I can tell you what it will look like though, as I just took a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ZFtGP87.png. It's conventional that repeated Thai decorators stick with the base glyph, though that character is invalid Thai. We might fix it nevertheless.

aidos• 13 years ago

So that's what's going on! I get this in Skype on some Thai account names. Been wondering about this for ages (over a year)

rplacd• 13 years ago

Huh - my Chrome renders it like a photon out of a Feynman diagram.

trumbitta22• 13 years ago

Nice.

Is it a "Like a Boss" character?

http://www.leer-leren.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Like-a-...

trumbitta22• 13 years ago

I get jokes are not ever admitted in this club?

eksith• 13 years ago

I just clicked on the image results and I'm... confused :/

Also, it seems to not work on all browsers and even then, FF and IE do slightly different things : http://i.imgur.com/hfWu5Bs.png

I'm on Win7.

Edit: I just noticed, on FF, the character spills out of the tab preview text and onto the chrome background as well.

DocG• 13 years ago

Oh gawd, there are dirt all over my screen now..

giulianob• 13 years ago

If anyone can figure out a way to strip out those nasty cases while still preserving valid accents in most common languages then please let me know.

contingencies4• 13 years ago

Here's a basic explanation of the diacritic notion as it applies to Asian scripts.

Thai belongs to a family of scripts known as abugidas. Abugidas include pretty much all South Asian and many Southeast Asian scripts, for example Burmese, Cambodian, Dai, Lao, Thai, etc. They all pretty much derive from Brahmi, which was the proto Indian script. You can see an example of Brahmi over here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi

Abugidas are based upon combining multiple glyphs in to syllables, often allowing glyphs above, below, to the left and to the right of the initial consonant, and often including a closing consonant. Most glyphs tend to be consonants, though some are vowels, and others can be special marks for indicating tone or other notions. Often shorter vowels are excluded (as in Modern Standard Arabic).

In old times, such scripts were handled with wacky font-hacks. However, with Unicode, there are some super complex algorithms that make glyphs combine both visually (when typesetting) and logically (when saving/searching/etc). You can actually type a character and a diacritic and it can sometimes automatically combine to form a single character, if such a beast exists, not just visually but when saving to disk.

What makes it even more confusing is that South Asian scripts in particular have mega-combo characters, where whole chunks of glyphs sort of fold in to flowing short-hand symbols. In the case of Sanskrit, I believe loads of these were used in history but few are used these days.

I think that's a fair pontification - corrections welcome!

sebilasse• 13 years ago

i have learned the thai alphabet and that "mega-combo character" comment just made my day. Reading thai pretty much feels like reading regexps. Anditdoesntmakeitanyeasierthattheydontusespaces

contingencies4• 13 years ago

Actually Thai only has roughly twice the number of characters that we have in Roman scripts - excepting tones (a real pain) it is possible to learn pretty quickly. Lao by contrast has less, but has a rather tricky plethora of vowel combinations for a myriad of hard to distinguish eww, ieww, ooh, iuooh type sounds. :) Cambodian has no tones and is my pick for the one to go for if you are keen on an easy starter.

Tangential tidbit: I sent a copy of The Cambodian System of Writing (http://pratyeka.org/csw/) to TPB's anakata while he was solitary confinement to help him stave off boredom. No idea if he ever read it, though his mother assures me it arrived.

sirn• 13 years ago

(Native Thai speaking.)

The worst thing about "not using space" when it comes to computer is that it's nearly impossible to do word-breaking/line-breaking without relying on dictionary[1] which is very hard to convince software developers not using system text engine to add support for line breaking[2].

The suffer still continues to this date, Android, for instance, still lack a proper support (break by character instead of word) and few apps lack of Thai word-breaking support at all (Twitter, whose only do word break by space).

[1] http://linux.thai.net/svn/software/libthai/trunk/data/ [2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7969 it took Mozilla 9 years. Opera, on the other hand, still lacks proper Thai support.

ubasu• 13 years ago

I wouldn't call them "mega-combo characters" ;-) Typically, these are at most two or three letters written together, and they are very much used today in Sanskrit, Hindi and other regional variants such as Bengali etc.

Of course you also have multiple words that have been combined into one large compound word, by way of appropriate linguistic rules of combining sounds. This is similar to long compound words in German.

contingencies4• 13 years ago

Apparently sometimes called conjuncts. http://pratyeka.org/sanskrit/conjuncts.html

lnanek2• 13 years ago

Chrome on OS X doesn't have a huge stack of them coming off the letter...

deadfall• 13 years ago

I was going to ask about this a week ago. An "Anonymous" twitter account posted it last week and the letters overlaid 3 or 4 tweets above it. Had no idea what it was.

josephjrobison• 13 years ago

ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็

darkstalker3• 13 years ago

Stuff like that is what was used to implement zalgo text

Ę̮̱͔͓ͯ͗ͫ̌̏ͫ͌́x̘̤͚̰̫̫̗̤̱̒̓ͨͯ͑̓ͥͫ̕å̰͚̓͒ͫm̛̤͕̫̳̺̩̄̓ͨͥ͜ͅp̰͉͗ͤl̵̖̗̫͍͓͋̍̐͌̐̒e̡̧͔̮̿͒͋̈́͡ ̸͉͔͗͐̍ͩͫ̀ͭz̨͎̱̟̘̓ä́͊̉̾͜͏̺̲̘l̛̥͇͖̹̻̜̈̀̀g̴̗̻͚͙̭͍̩̔̉̆ͦ͌͘oͬ̾͑̉̋҉̢͙̹̹̺̺ ̷̢͖̲͇̺̪̹̙̺̘͐̄ͬ̍͆t̶͔̣̜̟͌̀ͪ̅ͧ̒̒ͫ̚ȅ̠̪̻̄ͫ̋͝xͭ͆͝͏̮͔̜t̟̬̦̣̟͉͈̞̝ͣͫ͞,̡̼̭̘̙̜ͧ̆̀̔ͮ́ͯͯ ̢̮͎̦͙͇ͪͪ̈͌ͬ̄̓̐͞ḷ̹̺̙̜̇̉́͡o̢̻̪̠̬̍͐̉ͮͥ̑͊ͪt̢̘̬͓͕̬́ͪ̽́s̢̜̠̬̘͖̠͕ͫ͗̾͋͒̃͛̚͞ͅ ̝̣̥̳͇͎̭̾̔̀̀̔̽̕o͇ͮ̋̅͋͆̈́̔͗͟f̙̙͕̮̈ͪͯ̿̈͠ ̯͎̺͎̺̃̀͟͟d͍͍̺͂̂i̪̩̙̭̝͖ͥ͂̂̈̒̎r̥̜̃̏̃͋̓ͥ̃̉̄͘͢t̳̦̬͆͂ͬͧ̏ͬ̓y̵̮̗̟ͩ̃̾͐́ͩ ̣͍̘͈̫͓̊ͤ̚͡͝cͥͭ͐̎͆͘̕҉̫̞h̴̢̫̘͉̖ͪͩ̓ͪͯ̑͑̓̎͝a̧̢̖͔̗̬̘̯̟ͪ̐͌̍͂̊r̷̝͓̬͆̄̽̓̋ͬ̈̔͝͠ā̗͑ͬ̀c͒̎͌̔͛͘҉̘͖͖̖̯̖͖͙ṱ̶͇͚͎ͯ͋͢͝eͦ̽͆͏̟̭̠r̙̖͙̳̾ͯ̈̕ṣ͙̈͆̔͗̉ͥ̋̔̕

windsurfer3• 13 years ago

I've been told off before for pasting that on HN before. I'd suggest you edit your comment.

spiralganglion• 13 years ago

It's actually relevant here. For people less familiar with some aspects of Unicode, this is a neat example, along the same lines as the OP. Just don't try to select it!

juan_juarez2• 13 years ago

Thank you for ruining my page rendering.

dice• 13 years ago

What does it do? Chrome on Linux just has it a bit garbage-y, nothing major: http://i.imgur.com/BopYxYM.png

tambourine_man• 13 years ago

On the iPhone

http://imgur.com/dXwEHeN.jpg

nwh• 13 years ago

You might be interested in: http://twitter.com/crashtxt

nghi199• 13 years ago

Mobile Safari doesn't seem to have this issue.

HoochTHX• 13 years ago

Seems all the major sites have this flaw.

darkhorn• 13 years ago

ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้

warfangle• 13 years ago

Your comment forces HN into horizontal scrolling mode. Care to add some spaces in there to not fuck everyone over?

estitesc• 13 years ago

Missingno

zobzu• 13 years ago

works fine on my linux, not on my windows ;)

DanBC2• 13 years ago

I kind of wish the poster had included a screen shot of what happens; what should happen; and what definitely shouldn't happen.

I (OS X; crome) get little blobs over the n. That's wrong? But doesn't break the page?

mech4bg• 13 years ago

Yeah I was completely baffled by this until I looked in Google Image Search. I ran this on my Windows box and sure enough it looks crazy with little 'springs' going everywhere. Under Chrome, Firefox and Safari on OS X it looks normal though, just foreign text.

mydpy• 13 years ago

This is awesome.

priyaranjan• 13 years ago

Opens eyes to unicode for me!

afiler• 13 years ago

Since this page is already full of weird unicode stuff, I may as well show off this fun tool that I wrote.

𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒 6.0 𝑓𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑.

𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕗𝕖𝕨𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕦𝕝𝕝 𝕕𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕖-𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕜 𝕒𝕝𝕡𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕥, 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕚𝕥 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕆𝕊 𝕏.

http://mar.cx/unicate/

darkstalker3• 13 years ago

there are similar tools like http://www.panix.com/~eli/unicode/convert.cgi?text=example+t...

martinced• 13 years ago

See that: yet another issue with characters in filenames/directory names with aren't printable ASCII characters.

This kind of stuff is precisely the reason why we make sure that every filename we create is only using a subset of ASCII (and no space of course). In our source code, in our builds, in the desktop app we're serving, etc.

Unicode characters entered by users should go in one place: the DB.

I smiled the other day when I read about the build script for Chromium: it clearly specificied that the source directory must not contain any space in its name.

Of course it shouldn't. That's experience.

AndyKelley• 13 years ago

Can we just mark this language as deprecated? It's too complicated to render!

fractalsea• 13 years ago

Hmm, that's interesting. At work I looked at this on my Ubuntu machine with the Chromium browser. It didn't look particularly special because all the diacritic marks were drawn on top of each other in the same location above the letter.

I come home and look at it on my Windows machine with Chrome, and now I see the big stack of diacritic marks that I assume everyone's making a fuss about. I assume it's something to do with the way that the system's installed font lays out the marks in question.

Fundlab• 13 years ago

ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็

mkhalil• 13 years ago

ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้้ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิิ ก็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็็ กิิิิิิิ

Thai character ก็็็็็ (ก) gets rendered in a strange way

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