@foone @imbl throw an O' in there (with capital afterwards) for good measure to place yourself squarely among the ranks of the absolutely bog-standard centuries old name traditions that are regularly used in multiple cultures but somehow kryptonite for text handling systems.

I think the funniest might be the literal missing-character box codepoint. Everyone will assume that it's actually some obscure glyph their system can't handle, and whenever you write it out on paper on a form that uses little boxes for each letter, you'll just be drawing a rectangle inside the rectangle and whoever has to enter the data will be stumped.

@foone there a fun time when browser layout engines didn't handle a lot of the unicode format modifiers. I forget which code point it was exactly, but there was one you could just keep repeating and every time you did it would hoist your text vertically upwards by like 8 pixels or so. Repeat enough of them, and you could do things like make your text appear on top of other people's forum posts.

this was a fun time because you could just write DISREGARD, I SUCK on someone's post, mid-argument

Old versions of Java Swing didn't handle it well at all. I remember it looked something like a musical note when rendered by Swing. There was a multiplayer Go server with a Java client called "KGS" and you could spam that in chat and it would draw all over the whole thing, even up out of the chat pane all over the entire window UI

@SnoopJ @arrjay @foone

U+200B (zero width space)