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Ving Rhymes<a href="https://pagan.plus/@Crazypedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Crazypedia</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@catsalad</a> <a href="https://hackers.town/@thegibson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thegibson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ansi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ansi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ansiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ansiart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/textmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#textmode</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/textmodeart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#textmodeart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utf8art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8art</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/durdraw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#durdraw</a>

argv minus one<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unicode</a> is one of those little things in life that I can't help but smile about.Is it perfect? No, of course not. Is it better than the alternative? Yes, so much so that every time I'm confronted with a long list of character encodings I can choose from, I feel a sense of relief when I find <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF8</a> among them.I wouldn't have thought it possible to standardize a single character encoding for everyone, and yet, somehow, there is just such a standard.<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a>

stateful beinghere's what <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taggart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#taggart</a> looks like for now.showing some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/torrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#torrent</a>-ed music with tags in invalid encoding (pre-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/win1251" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#win1251</a>), and some albums ripped from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#youtube</a> with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ytdlp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ytdlp</a> (where all the tracks are concatenated):<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tengri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tengri</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tui</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/id3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#id3</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#editor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rustlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rustlang</a>

loganer<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/codeberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#codeberg</a> I decided on codeberg 🤷‍♂️ I still hate UTF8. (why couldn't there be a size prefix?)<a href="https://codeberg.org/Loganer/Sauce/src/branch/Base/src/Sauce/Function/UTF8/ToPoint.c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/Loganer/Sauce/src/branch/Base/src/Sauce/Function/UTF8/ToPoint.c</a>

Christian MayerHow quickly can you check that a string is valid unicode (UTF-8)? — <a href="https://lemire.me/blog/2018/05/09/how-quickly-can-you-check-that-a-string-is-valid-unicode-utf-8/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lemire.me/blog/2018/05/09/how-quickly-can-you-check-that-a-string-is-valid-unicode-utf-8/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a>

der Technokrat<a href="https://sueden.social/@virbonus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@virbonus</a> Die darunterliegenden Systeme sind teilweise noch auf Großrechnern. Und die können (noch) kein <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF8</a>

Tommi NieminenImutin kaikki <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a>'in julkaisuni – ainakin jos <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a>'a uskotaan. Pyysin <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/JSON" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JSON</a>-muodossa toivossa, että tulisi sutjakammin. Hieman ongelmia aiheutti JSONin koodaus: merkkijonot ovat validia <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF8</a>:aa mutta JSON ilmeisesti olettaa <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/UTF16" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF16</a>:n, joten vaaditaan mukamuunnos eestaas; apua löytyi <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/StackOverflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StackOverflow</a>’sta. Aikaleimat sentään olivat standardi-<a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#POSIX</a>’ia.En tiedä, kuinka täydellinen ”arkisto” on, mutta ainakin jotakin saisi talteen, kun lähtee lätkimään. <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/some" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#some</a> <a href="https://mastodontti.fi/tags/atkjuttuja" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#atkjuttuja</a>

Jim DeLaHunt<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@screwtape" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@screwtape</a> I must admit, I am having a hard time believing that you haven't ever seen someone enter <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unicode</a> characters on a <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computer</a> in a natural way. It would be weird, because every Latin script letter and punctuation mark in your toot was a <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unicode</a> character. 1/2

screwlisp<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@screwtape" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@screwtape</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/medium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medium</a> article on <a href="https://me.dm/tags/localization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#localization</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emacs</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a> entry (it's that readme basically). <a href="https://medium.com/@screwlisp/inferior-lisp-emacs-unicode-lookup-d4faec4f0413" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@screwlisp/inferior-lisp-emacs-unicode-lookup-d4faec4f0413</a>

screwlispHey everyone. I must admit, I don't believe I have ever seen someone enter <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unicode</a> characters on a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computer</a> in a natural way. Which seems weird, because a bunch of languages use them.I wrote a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/commonLisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#commonLisp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/asdf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#asdf</a> package that just looks up a list of symbols in a file that has every non-surrogate unicode codepoint in it, and an <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emacs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/elisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elisp</a> function that just calls the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lisp</a> one.<a href="https://codeberg.org/tfw/unicode-chars" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://codeberg.org/tfw/unicode-chars</a>Multilingual people, what can you tell me about doing this at all?

Todd A. Jacobs | RubyistThere are three <a href="https://ruby.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF8</a> characters (2 symbols, 1 emoji) for old-stye telephones: ☎, ☏, ☎️.1. On some systems "black telephone" renders as the "red telephone" emoji instead of as the expected winding/dingbat-style character I was expecting. This seems system- and application-specific.2. Depending on font, the "white telephone" may not match the height or midline of other letters or even ☎/☎️. The "black flag" ⚑ is often even worse.Not huge deals, but created some formatting issues today.

EigenraumIn <a href="https://podcasts.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF8</a> gitb es das Symbol ⍼.Es heißt Angzarr, eine Art Ligatur aus einem L und einem Blitz.Niemand weiß so richtig, warum es in UTF8 enthalten ist, aber in diesem Dok. ist am Ende ein Brief vom AMS-Präsidenten! <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2191.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2191.pdf</a>Also wofür steht es?? Wrong answers only 👇

Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P Natenom<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UserAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UserAgent</a> based banning of <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/textmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#textmode</a> browsers is sooooo lame.$ lynx -useragent=🖕 https://[…]<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Lynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lynx</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TUI</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Browser</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TextModeBrowser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TextModeBrowser</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unicode</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF8</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Emoji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Emoji</a>

Ekki DF4ORUnicode is hard, even in 2025 😀 <a href="https://radiosocial.de/tags/unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unicode</a> <a href="https://radiosocial.de/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://radiosocial.de/tags/sdrpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sdrpp</a>

Joaquim HomrighausenWhy does this PHP construct:normalizer_normalize( $search_string, \Normalizer::FORM_D );Convert ÖÖÖ to OOO, but keeps ÅÅÅ as ÅÅÅ ... WTF?! 🤔 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/php" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#php</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wtf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wtf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/utf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a>

AbieGlyphe surprenant du jour : ₣, symbole monétaire du Franc français (!). Rendu par "un F majuscule doublement barré, qui a été proposé par Édouard Balladur en 1988, une ligature Fr ou d’autres variantes. Selon Yannis Haralambous en 2004, ce symbole n’a jamais été utilisé" <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%82%A3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%82%A3</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/typo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#typo</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF8</a>

रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Salvatore ‘antirez’ Sanfilippo (of Redis fame) has a series of videos on this topic:<a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrEMgOSrS_3cU-ndLheq6TZiO3gWTAszA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrEMgOSrS_3cU-ndLheq6TZiO3gWTAszA</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CodingWithAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CodingWithAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kilo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kilo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UTF8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTF8</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unicode</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Video</a>

jfk'worst-fit' attacks are the latest iteration of the classic "let's guess what the user wants" idea. This has always lead to issues down the line. It will be really hard to reason about and fix for apps that rely on the affected Windows APIs.<a href="https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2025-01-worstfit-unveiling-hidden-transformers-in-windows-ansi/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2025-01-worstfit-unveiling-hidden-transformers-in-windows-ansi/</a>If you want a deep dive on the underlying mechanicss of these types of attacks, check out my colleague's blog post from a couple months ago: <a href="https://herolab.usd.de/en/the-security-risks-of-overlong-utf-8-encodings/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://herolab.usd.de/en/the-security-risks-of-overlong-utf-8-encodings/</a><a href="https://social.tinycyber.space/tags/WorstFit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorstFit</a> <a href="https://social.tinycyber.space/tags/ANSII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ANSII</a> <a href="https://social.tinycyber.space/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a> <a href="https://social.tinycyber.space/tags/pwn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pwn</a> <a href="https://social.tinycyber.space/tags/rce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rce</a> <a href="https://social.tinycyber.space/tags/pentesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pentesting</a> <a href="https://social.tinycyber.space/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hacking</a>

Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:<a href="https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fanf</a> it's absolutely fantastic. and if, like me, you want to see for yourself that it actually behaves correctly and in which sense of correct, here's something which might help: <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@slink/111019934949852505" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fosstodon.org/@slink/111019934949852505</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/utf8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utf8</a>

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