On: DNS Esoterica – Why you can't dig Switzerland

[alexpotato]

This article reminds me of the Unicode Japanese "Ghost" characters: https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

Long story short:

Someone entered some characters erroneously in the Unicode spec and now those characters are there FOREVER.

[zinekeller → alexpotato]

And this... character with an unknown meaning or purpose: U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW (https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012865)

[ddalex → zinekeller]

Isn't that just an icon to the bitcoin gainz ?

[bigiain → ddalex]

Down and to the left! To the moooooon!! (Sometimes. When it's not currently visible from your location.)

[hereforphone → zinekeller]

I'm changing my name to this

[isoprophlex → hereforphone]

The artist formerly know as right angle with downward zigzag arrow

[GoOnThenDoTell → alexpotato]

May as well find a use for them

[lmm → GoOnThenDoTell]

People have already written ghost stories using them as the names of the ghosts.

The fact that no-one necessarily knows how to read them aloud (some of them you can guess, some of them are very unclear) can be a fun wrinkle.

[goldenkey → GoOnThenDoTell]

SpooOooOky ghost keyboard mashing commences :-)