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Stuff like that is what was used to implement zalgo text

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I've been told off before for pasting that on HN before. I'd suggest you edit your comment.


It's actually relevant here. For people less familiar with some aspects of Unicode, this is a neat example, along the same lines as the OP. Just don't try to select it!


When you say "don't try", some people take it as a personal challenge :) Why does this happen? How can it mess up my selection like this?


Mess up in what sense? Selection seems to work reasonably on that text for me in Firefox....


It's displayed with boxes here, not the actual zalgo text (although I can paste it somewhere and looks correctly there), although my encoding is set to UTF and I can't select single boxes. The whole page kept blinking, but this was another issue (the layout of the comments, when I went over some borders it kept selecting and deselecting the whole page which caused it to blink).


Huh. Is that in Firefox? On what OS?


Chrome on Windows 7 with U.S. English regional settings... As boring a setup as it gets!


Sounds like a possible WebKit bug, then, to be honest...


Same here. Displays and able to select it quite alright. (Ubuntu 12.10, Firefox 21)

Although searching for the same text results in Google telling me this:

  414. That's an error.

  The requested URL /... is too large to process. That’s all we know.


"Just don't try to select it!"

Why - seems to select perfectly well when I try it using Firefox on Windows 7.



Thank you for ruining my page rendering.


What does it do? Chrome on Linux just has it a bit garbage-y, nothing major: http://i.imgur.com/BopYxYM.png


Chrome Windows 7 ends up rendering them all as boxes. The lack of whitespace prevents line breaking. The problem is that it forces the container out to 1400px wide, rather than responding to browser width.

I really don't like trying to read 1400px long lines of text.


Chrome on Windows 7 renders all the text fine for me

http://i.imgur.com/h7S9SU3.png


Chrome on Windows 7 here, renders most of them as boxes.


I see most of the Unicode characters on Firefox/Gentoo Linux with the following packages installed:

    media-fonts/arphicfonts
    media-fonts/baekmuk-fonts
    media-fonts/cardo
    media-fonts/corefonts
    media-fonts/dejavu
    media-fonts/droid
    media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
    media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi
    media-fonts/font-bh-ttf
    media-fonts/font-bh-type1
    media-fonts/freefont
    media-fonts/freefonts
    media-fonts/inconsolata
    media-fonts/intlfonts
    media-fonts/kochi-substitute
    media-fonts/symbola
    media-fonts/terminus-font
    media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera


Interestingly in my Chrome (27 dev) it looks like this in Linux: http://i.imagebanana.com/img/voz9pem7/Auswahl_048.png


I prefer firefox (mac): http://i.imgur.com/Wcjz21T.png


Yep, FF on mac here and it looks great. Why do people keep using Chrome, IE, Safari, and Opera?




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