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Well that definitely takes the ๐•ก๐•ฃ๐•š๐•ซ๐•– for most noticeable Hacker News submission.

Suggestion (if you are author): There are a lot of chars that look like another char, often used on the web, so i think that there are more advanced versions to be made. I think i read that a lot of thai signs and cyrillic look like latin chars.



Yeah, it's great fun to put a cyrillic "ะฐ" into a variable name in code.


Russian government officials are obliged to put all their purchases on the online tender platform.

So they are using this trick (but in the opposite direction, latin `a` instead of cyrillic `ะฐ`) to avoid undesired competitors from entering those biddings and lowering the purchase prices (and not paying kickbacks, obviously). https://navalny-en.livejournal.com/52565.html


Huh. I'm really surprised there isn't a Russian clone of tender already.


or having your variable names in _๐•ฑ๐–—๐–†๐–๐–™๐–š๐–— which might be more appearent but none the less annoying. That'd make a nice useless language though.

  ๐–•๐–š๐–‡๐–‘๐–Ž๐–ˆ ๐–›๐–”๐–Ž๐–‰[] ๐–’๐–†๐–Ž๐–“(๐–˜๐–™๐–—๐–Ž๐–“๐–Œ[] ๐–†๐–—๐–Œ๐–˜) {
    ๐•ฎ๐–”๐–“๐–˜๐–”๐–‘๐–Š.๐–‚๐–—๐–Ž๐–™๐–Š๐•ท๐–Ž๐–“๐–Š("๐•ณ๐–†๐–‘๐–‘๐–” ๐–‚๐–Š๐–‘๐–™");  
  }
  // ๐•ฝ๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–๐–Š๐–“๐–’๐–†๐–˜๐–ˆ๐–๐–Ž๐–“๐–Š๐–“๐–˜๐–•๐–—๐–†๐–ˆ๐–๐–Š "๐•ฑ๐–—๐–†๐–๐–™๐–š๐–—" ๐•ฐ๐–Ž๐–“๐–˜ ๐•ป๐–š๐–“๐–๐–™ ๐•น๐–š๐–‘๐–‘ ๐•น๐–š๐–‘๐–‘


OMG, yes:

    # ๐•ฒ๐–Š๐–’รค๐–˜๐–˜ ๐•ฝ๐–Š๐–Ž๐–ˆ๐–๐–˜๐–†๐–š๐–˜๐–˜๐–ˆ๐–๐–š๐–˜๐–˜ ๐–‹รผ๐–— ๐•ฌ๐–‘๐–Œ๐–”๐–—๐–Ž๐–™๐–๐–’๐–Ž๐–˜๐–ˆ๐–๐–Š ๐•ฌ๐–—๐–‡๐–Š๐–Ž๐–™ 

    ๐–๐–‘๐–†๐–˜๐–˜๐–Š ๐•ญ๐–Š๐–Œ๐–—รผ๐–˜๐–˜๐–š๐–“๐–Œ๐–˜๐–†๐–“๐–Ÿ๐–Š๐–Ž๐–Œ๐–Š๐–‡๐–Š๐–‰๐–Ž๐–Š๐–“๐–’๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–๐–†๐–“๐–Ž๐–˜๐–’๐–š๐–˜: 
        ๐–‰๐–Š๐–‹ __๐–†๐–“๐–‹๐–†๐–“๐–Œ๐–Š๐–“__(๐–˜๐–Š๐–‘๐–‡๐–˜๐–™, ๐–๐–”๐–—๐–“๐–†๐–’๐–Š): 
            ๐–˜๐–Š๐–‘๐–‡๐–˜๐–™.๐–๐–”๐–—๐–“๐–†๐–’๐–Š = ๐–๐–”๐–—๐–“๐–†๐–’๐–Š

        ๐–‰๐–Š๐–‹ __๐–˜๐–ˆ๐–๐–“๐–š๐–—__(๐–˜๐–Š๐–‘๐–‡๐–˜๐–™): 
            ๐–Ÿ๐–š๐–—รผ๐–ˆ๐–๐–Œ๐–Š๐–‡๐–Š๐–“ ๐–˜๐–Š๐–‘๐–‡๐–˜๐–™.๐–๐–”๐–—๐–“๐–†๐–’๐–Š 

        ๐–‰๐–Š๐–‹ ๐–‡๐–Š๐–Œ๐–—รผ๐–˜๐–˜๐–Š๐–“(๐–˜๐–Š๐–‘๐–‡๐–˜๐–™, ๐–๐–”๐–—๐–“๐–†๐–’๐–Š=๐•น๐–Ž๐–ˆ๐–๐–™๐–Š๐–๐–Ž๐–˜๐–™๐–Š๐–“๐–Ÿ): 
            ๐–‰๐–—๐–š๐–ˆ๐–๐–Š๐–“("๐•ฒ๐–š๐–™๐–Š๐–“ ๐•ฟ๐–†๐–Œ, " + ๐–˜๐–Š๐–‘๐–‡๐–˜๐–™.๐–๐–”๐–—๐–“๐–†๐–’๐–Š)
            ๐–Ÿ๐–š๐–—รผ๐–ˆ๐–๐–Œ๐–Š๐–‡๐–Š๐–“ ๐–˜๐–Š๐–‘๐–‡๐–˜๐–™

    ๐–‡๐–Š๐–Œ๐–—รผ๐–˜๐–˜๐–Š๐–— = ๐•ญ๐–Š๐–Œ๐–—รผ๐–˜๐–˜๐–š๐–“๐–Œ๐–˜๐–†๐–“๐–Ÿ๐–Š๐–Ž๐–Œ๐–Š๐–‡๐–Š๐–‰๐–Ž๐–Š๐–“๐–’๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–๐–†๐–“๐–Ž๐–˜๐–’๐–š๐–˜("๐•ณ๐–†๐–“๐–˜-๐•ป๐–Š๐–™๐–Š๐–— ๐•ฏ๐–Š๐–š๐–™๐–˜๐–ˆ๐–" )
    ๐–‡๐–Š๐–Œ๐–—รผ๐–˜๐–˜๐–Š๐–—.๐–‡๐–Š๐–Œ๐–—รผ๐–˜๐–˜๐–Š๐–“()


I've always found that attempts at germanization of subjects where English is the lingua franca are incredibly amusing. Further germanization of German words, such as the conversion of "Nase" to "๐•ฒ๐–Š๐–˜๐–Ž๐–ˆ๐–๐–™๐–˜๐–Ÿ๐–Ž๐–“๐–๐–Š๐–“" also is at least worth a chuckle despite the solemn background that spawned the movement.

  ๐•น๐–Š๐–š๐–Ž๐–Œ๐–๐–Š๐–Ž๐–™๐–˜๐–‡๐–‘๐–†๐–™๐–™ ๐–‰๐–Š๐–— ๐–š๐–“๐–๐–”๐–“๐–›๐–Š๐–“๐–™๐–Ž๐–”๐–“๐–Š๐–‘๐–‘๐–Š๐–“ ๐•ฝ๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–๐–Š๐–“๐–’๐–†๐–˜๐–ˆ๐–๐–Ž๐–Š๐–“๐–Ž๐–“๐–Œ๐–Š๐–“๐–Ž๐–Š๐–š๐–—๐–Š | ๐•น๐–Š๐–š๐–Š๐–˜ | ๐•ถ๐–”๐–“๐–›๐–Š๐–—๐–˜๐–†๐–™๐–Ž๐–”๐–“๐–Š๐–“ | ๐•ถ๐–”๐–’๐–’๐–Š๐–“๐–™๐–†๐–—๐–Š | ๐•ฑ๐–—๐–†๐–Œ๐–Š๐–˜๐–™๐–Š๐–‘๐–‘๐–š๐–“๐–Œ | ๐•ญ๐–Š๐–—๐–š๐–‹๐–˜๐–‹๐–Ž๐–“๐–‰๐–š๐–“๐–Œ๐–˜๐–†๐–‡๐–™๐–Š๐–Ž๐–‘๐–š๐–“๐–Œ | ๐•ฐ๐–Ž๐–“๐–—๐–Š๐–Ž๐–ˆ๐–๐–Š


>"Nase" to "๐•ฒ๐–Š๐–˜๐–Ž๐–ˆ๐–๐–™๐–˜๐–Ÿ๐–Ž๐–“๐–๐–Š๐–“"

Which is bullshit and just a parody on linguistic purism.

I could write more, but i have to configure the Zuwachssicherung of my Klapprechner over DFรœ.


๐•น๐–Š๐–š๐–Ž๐–Œ๐–๐–Š๐–Ž๐–™๐–˜๐–‡๐–‘๐–†๐–™๐–™ ๐–‰๐–Š๐–— ๐–š๐–“๐–๐–”๐–“๐–›๐–Š๐–“๐–™๐–Ž๐–”๐–“๐–Š๐–‘๐–‘๐–Š๐–“ ๐•ฝ๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–๐–Š๐–“๐–’๐–†๐–˜๐–ˆ๐–๐–Ž๐–Š๐–“๐–Ž๐–“๐–Œ๐–Š๐–“๐–Ž๐–Š๐–š๐–—๐–Š is seriously epic.


Google translate doesn't seem to do well with those characters ... could someone please help with "๐•ญ๐–Š๐–Œ๐–—รผ๐–˜๐–˜๐–š๐–“๐–Œ๐–˜๐–†๐–“๐–Ÿ๐–Š๐–Ž๐–Œ๐–Š๐–‡๐–Š๐–‰๐–Ž๐–Š๐–“๐–’๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–๐–†๐–“๐–Ž๐–˜๐–’๐–š๐–˜".


Literally it means: Greeting-Display-Control-Mechanism. In German you can jumble the words together to get a new, more precise German word. The most notorious being this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/100...


Or this: http://linguacuriosa.blogspot.com/2009/10/german-for-beginne...


Or this: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html


I remember my German teacher struggling to get the class to remember Schwarzwรคlder Kirschtorte (admittedly two words). So she taught us Vierwaldstรคtterseedampfschiffgesellschaftskapitรคnsmรผtzensternlein instead. After that Schwarzwรคlder Kirschtorte was easy.


Mother of god...


That would be Gottesmutter or (way better) Gottesgebรคrerin (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottesgeb%C3%A4rerin)


More like this is totally freaking Awesome...!


German for: Spend the best hours of the day on an orange website.


basically showWelcome()


This is now my favorite code snippet. I didn't have one before. Love "Begrรผssungsanzeigebedienmechanismus" and the hopelessly verbose way it was implemented.


I just remembered the snippet forgot "Sehr geehrte Herr oder Frau". Oh no! -1 bureaucracy point.


OH NEIN! MEIN LEBEN! :(


Too bad the source code of that beautiful toy is nowhere to be found - I'd gladly provide a patch that teaches it about the umlauts which it unfortunately left alone in your piece of art you created here <3


It's trivial to dump the tables at least. Just enter all printable ascii characters :). The umlauts would be by first fully decomposing the string down to letters+combining characters, right?

๐•ญ๐–Š๐–Œ๐–—๐–šฬˆ๐–˜๐–˜๐–š๐–“๐–Œ๐–˜๐–†๐–“๐–Ÿ๐–Š๐–Ž๐–Œ๐–Š๐–‡๐–Š๐–‰๐–Ž๐–Š๐–“๐–’๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–๐–†๐–“๐–Ž๐–˜๐–’๐–š๐–˜

Right :). Though it's not quite centred for me.


I have a tool to make this text, though I'll admit I never even thought about decomposing inputs like รผ and then recomposing them after Fraktur-izing.

http://mar.cx/unicate/ or https://github.com/afiler/unicate


๐•ฌ๐–ˆ๐–๐–™๐–š๐–“๐–Œ! ๐•ฌ๐–‘๐–‘๐–Š๐–˜ ๐•ท๐–”๐–”๐–๐–Š๐–“๐–˜๐–๐–Š๐–Š๐–•๐–Š๐–—๐–˜!

๐”‡๐”ž๐”ฐ ๐” ๐”ฌ๐”ช๐”ญ๐”ฒ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ช๐”ž๐” ๐”ฅ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ข ๐”ฆ๐”ฐ๐”ฑ ๐”ซ๐”ฆ๐” ๐”ฅ๐”ฑ ๐”ฃ๐”ฒ๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”ค๐”ข๐”ฃ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ญ๐”ฌ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ฒ๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ช๐”ฆ๐”ฑ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ฏ๐”ž๐”Ÿ๐”Ÿ๐”ข๐”ซ. โ„‘๐”ฐ๐”ฑ ๐”ข๐”ž๐”ฐ๐”ถ ๐”ฐ๐” ๐”ฅ๐”ซ๐”ž๐”ญ๐”ญ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ก๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”ฐ๐”ญ๐”ฏ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”ค๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ด๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”จ, ๐”Ÿ๐”ฉ๐”ฌ๐”ด๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ฃ๐”ฒ๐”ฐ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ฒ๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ญ๐”ฌ๐”ญ๐”ญ๐”ข๐”ซ๐” ๐”ฌ๐”ฏ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ช๐”ฆ๐”ฑ ๐”ฐ๐”ญ๐”ฆ๐”ฑ๐”ฝ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ฐ๐”ญ๐”ž๐”ฏ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ. โ„‘๐”ฐ๐”ฑ ๐”ซ๐”ฆ๐” ๐”ฅ๐”ฑ ๐”ฃ๐”ฒ๐”ข๐”ฏ ๐”ค๐”ข๐”ด๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”Ÿ๐”ข๐”ฆ ๐”ก๐”ž๐”ฐ ๐”ก๐”ฒ๐”ช๐”ญ๐”จ๐”ฌ๐”ญ๐”ฃ๐”ข๐”ซ. ๐”‡๐”ž๐”ฐ ๐”ฏ๐”ฒ๐”Ÿ๐”Ÿ๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ซ๐”ข๐” ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ฐ๐”ฆ๐” ๐”ฅ๐”ฑ๐”ฐ๐”ข๐”ข๐”ฏ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ข๐”ญ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ก๐”ž๐”ฐ ๐” ๐”ฌ๐”ฑ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ซ-๐”ญ๐”ฆ๐” ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ฅ๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ฐ ๐”ฆ๐”ซ ๐”ก๐”ž๐”ฐ ๐”ญ๐”ฌ๐” ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ฑ๐”ฐ ๐”ช๐”ฒ๐”ฐ๐”ฐ; ๐”ฏ๐”ข๐”ฉ๐”ž๐”ต๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ฒ๐”ซ๐”ก ๐”ด๐”ž๐”ฑ๐” ๐”ฅ๐”ข๐”ซ ๐”ก๐”ž๐”ฐ ๐”Ÿ๐”ฉ๐”ฆ๐”ซ๐”จ๐”ข๐”ซ๐”ฉ๐”ฆ๐” ๐”ฅ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ซ.


Oh.

This somehow reminded me of this one, in pseudo-Old Church Slavonic: http://lurkmore.so/images/d/d6/Pravoslavnii_koding.jpg

Sad thing is, Unicode still doesn't seem to properly support titlos and (not so sad, since personally I think Unicode shouldn't really do anything with fonts unless absolutely necessary) has no separate characters for Ustav and Poluustav scripts.


    .๐–‹๐–‘๐–†๐–Œ,.๐–‹๐–‘๐–†๐–Œ:๐–‡๐–Š๐–‹๐–”๐–—๐–Š,.๐–‹๐–‘๐–†๐–Œ:๐–†๐–‹๐–™๐–Š๐–—{๐–ˆ๐–”๐–“๐–™๐–Š๐–“๐–™: ''; ๐–‰๐–Ž๐–˜๐–•๐–‘๐–†๐–ž: ๐–‡๐–‘๐–”๐–ˆ๐–; ๐–œ๐–Ž๐–‰๐–™๐–:100๐–•๐–; ๐–๐–Š๐–Ž๐–Œ๐–๐–™: 20๐–•๐–;}
    .๐–‹๐–‘๐–†๐–Œ{๐–‡๐–†๐–ˆ๐–๐–Œ๐–—๐–”๐–š๐–“๐–‰: #000; ๐–•๐–†๐–‰๐–‰๐–Ž๐–“๐–Œ-๐–™๐–”๐–•: 20๐–•๐–}
    .๐–‹๐–‘๐–†๐–Œ:๐–‡๐–Š๐–‹๐–”๐–—๐–Š{๐–‡๐–†๐–ˆ๐–๐–Œ๐–—๐–”๐–š๐–“๐–‰: #๐–‹00; }
    .๐–‹๐–‘๐–†๐–Œ:๐–†๐–‹๐–™๐–Š๐–—{๐–‡๐–†๐–ˆ๐–๐–Œ๐–—๐–”๐–š๐–“๐–‰:#๐–‹๐–‹0}
(https://twitter.com/nickheer/status/535129309531635712)


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wouldn't this be more appropriate?


I am inspired and will immediately switch to Fraktur for all my Fortran and COBOL code!


Oh it can get much much worse... have a look at greek questionmark: "[...] canonically decomposes to U+003B ; semicolon making the marks identical in practice." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark#Greek_question_ma...


Oh that is awesome! I wonder if Java uses it as a semi-colon too?


I have only tested it with javescript, which gave a syntax error.


If you happen to use cyrillic in your source code (for comments or even strings) and constantly switch between latin and cyrillic, then this actually happens with ะฐ "c" letter, because both latin and cyrillic "c" occupy the same button. And that's not fun, btw.


Depends on which keyboard layout you use, of course.

Russian is my first language, but English is my primary language, and I never had my chance to practice typing using the standard Russian keyboard layout, so I almost always use the "Phonetic" layout - where the latin c is the cyrillic ั†. (Also, w is ัˆ, and who the hell remembers what []\-= map to - always trial and error for me to find ัŽะถััŒัŠ.)


Well Python 2 "protects" you from silly things like that and throws a syntax error.

  In [4]: class ะnotherClass():
     ...:     pass
    File "<ipython-input-4-ad6e67ea5e19>", line 1
      class ะnotherClass():
            ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax


Add a file encoding directive[1] at the begining of your file, and you can shoot at as many of your feet as you want.

[1] PEP 0263: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/


In Python 2 that only works within string literals, though.


I think the original submission announcing unicode support may win that prize: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=111100


Wow, that page crashes Chromium (Linux, 38.0.2125.111) every time I open it.


Cyrillic, sure. But Thai? Their alphabet is credited to one เธžเนˆเธญเธ‚เธธเธ™เธฃเธฒเธกเธ„เธณเนเธซเธ‡เธกเธซเธฒเธฃเธฒเธŠ. I've never thought there was any resemblance between Thai symbols and Latin ones, but... judge for yourself, I guess?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_alphabet


Credited is a strong word. AFAIK linguists agree it was copied largely from Khmer (Cambodian).


Would you really mind if I said that the Greek alphabet was credited to one ฮšฮฌฮดฮผฮฟฯ‚? We know that's not true, but it doesn't change the legend (and indeed, the legend of Cadmus explicitly states that the Greek alphabet was derived from the Phoenician one...).


Both Thai and Khmer are Indic abugida scripts that derive (just like Burmese, Lao, Sinhalese, Balinese, etc.) from Brahmi. Claiming any of these scripts is one person's work is displaying abject ignorance of one of the most significant families of writing in human history.


In your personal opinion, of course


These are called Homoglyphs, right? I remember reading an article about phishing that used these characters to register almost perfect looking domain names.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph




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