I just copy-pasted one of these links to skype. Encoding issues ensued. Everything is just a rectangle and when you click it, it gives an alertbox with:
Low surrogate char without a preceeding high surrogate char at index: 9. Check that the string is encoded properly.
It seems like Unicode support is still broken in many places.
It's definitely still broken in my browser. This is just "two rectangles dot ws" for me.
Chrome 43.0.2357.130 on Debian Sid. You'd think this sort of thing was rare but IME it's commonplace, not least because the average user doesn't really understand font rendering. For example I have no clue where in the stack the error that's causing me to see two rectangles is, and no motivation to sift through arcane documentation to try to sort it out.
I pasted it into Skype and it appeared fine, but the person who received it got a bunch of blocks. Had the same issue when clicking it though. Wonder if skype version has anything to do with it? Using 7.5.0.102 myself.
Low surrogate char without a preceeding high surrogate char at index: 9. Check that the string is encoded properly.
It seems like Unicode support is still broken in many places.