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Copy an emoji from Slack and you get :+1::skin-tone-4: (I tested 4 chat apps)

Copy an emoji from Slack and you get :+1::skin-tone-4: (I tested 4 chat apps)

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Discord silently trims zalgo text to 5 marks per letter (and Telegram turns 3 marks into spaces)

Discord silently trims zalgo text to 5 marks per letter (and Telegram turns 3 marks into spaces)

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You Checked isdigit Before Calling int and a Footnote Still Crashed the Import

You Checked isdigit Before Calling int and a Footnote Still Crashed the Import

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Why "👨‍👩‍👧‍👦".length Is 11: Counting Characters the Way Users See Them

Why "👨‍👩‍👧‍👦".length Is 11: Counting Characters the Way Users See Them

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Detecting emoji that Windows 10 can't draw, and swapping in images without breaking copy

Detecting emoji that Windows 10 can't draw, and swapping in images without breaking copy

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Will these fancy Unicode letters show as boxes? I checked 62 styles and 889 symbols against Windows 10 and Android fonts

Will these fancy Unicode letters show as boxes? I checked 62 styles and 889 symbols against Windows 10 and Android fonts

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[2/3] Moving the Columns, Keeping the Bytes: Inside YuHex’s RTL Layout

[2/3] Moving the Columns, Keeping the Bytes: Inside YuHex’s RTL Layout

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[3/3] The Work After the Mirror: Preserving Edits and Mixing Directions in YuHex

[3/3] The Work After the Mirror: Preserving Edits and Mixing Directions in YuHex

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Intl.Segmenter: split text without breaking emoji

Intl.Segmenter: split text without breaking emoji

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Why Bangla Text Breaks in PDFs (Even Chrome's Own PDFs Lose Up to 77% of the Words)

Why Bangla Text Breaks in PDFs (Even Chrome's Own PDFs Lose Up to 77% of the Words)

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Test a JPG Name Collision Policy With Executable Examples

Test a JPG Name Collision Policy With Executable Examples

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Safe Download Filenames in JavaScript: Turning Whatever the User Uploaded into bruh-trim.mp3

Safe Download Filenames in JavaScript: Turning Whatever the User Uploaded into bruh-trim.mp3

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Unicode Text Styling for Gaming and Social: What Breaks and Why

Unicode Text Styling for Gaming and Social: What Breaks and Why

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Why Sinhala copied from a Sri Lankan gazette looks like "Y%S ,xld" (and how to turn it into Unicode)

Why Sinhala copied from a Sri Lankan gazette looks like "Y%S ,xld" (and how to turn it into Unicode)

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I Tested 212 Unicode Characters Inside Free Fire — Here's What Mobile Games Actually Render

I Tested 212 Unicode Characters Inside Free Fire — Here's What Mobile Games Actually Render

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