isaiahJun 23, 2025

hey web folks,

when dealing with very complex emoji like: 🧑🏾‍🚒

is it better to leave it as that multi-codepoint ZWJ unicode character?

or html encode it to the sequence:

```
🧑🏾‍🚒
```

Iljitsch van BeijnumSep 12, 2023
Reading up on Unicode (even more than before...): "... Sometimes it's embarrassing to be a software engineer." https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/102205/should-utf-16-be-considered-harmful And did you know that 👩🏿‍🦰 =
����‍�� ?
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Niels K.Apr 6, 2018
Und T-Mobile Austria auf Twitter so: wir speichern eure Passwörter im Klartext ind unsere Sicherheit ist so krass, dass ihr euch keine Sorgen machen braucht 🤦‍♂️ https://twitter.com/tmobileat/status/981418339653300224 https://twitter.com/tmobileat/status/982187919061303296 ...
https://niels.kobschaetzki.net/post/2018-04-06-2864/
T-Mobile Austria on Twitter

“@c_pellegrino @PWTooStrong @Telekom_hilft Hello Claudia! The customer service agents see the first four characters of your password. We store the whole password, because you need it for the login for https://t.co/vJapgJ50qc ^andrea”

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Niels K.Mar 28, 2018
It is always the same: I have a problem in a program, search for a solution, give up and while I write the forum-post to ask people, I see my error and can fix it 🤦‍♂️ ...
https://niels.kobschaetzki.net/post/2018-03-28-2796/
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