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A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

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  1. ruspaceni
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    That was an interesting read and the line at the end was surprisingly comforting. Also don't we have a biological equivalent to carrying around ghost characters in our dna? I wonder if...

    That was an interesting read and the line at the end was surprisingly comforting.

    Also don't we have a biological equivalent to carrying around ghost characters in our dna? I wonder if accidentally preserving history is just emergent behavior

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  2. xiretza
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    This has already been posted on ~tech two days ago. It's about time for a search function I think.

    This has already been posted on ~tech two days ago. It's about time for a search function I think.

    4 votes
  3. temporalarcheologist
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    That's really cool, reminds me of how missingno became an actual element of gameplay in the original Pokémon by accident. Honestly I would be down with the "ghost" characters staying because they...

    That's really cool, reminds me of how missingno became an actual element of gameplay in the original Pokémon by accident. Honestly I would be down with the "ghost" characters staying because they represent a part of unicode history. so cool.

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  4. Arishaig
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    Really interesting. I wonder what the total storage space used by these "ghost characters" is globally. It's fascinating to think that a minor mistake made decades ago may well be with us,...

    Really interesting. I wonder what the total storage space used by these "ghost characters" is globally.

    It's fascinating to think that a minor mistake made decades ago may well be with us, everywhere, forever.

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