Ah, I think I see – this is related to my question on features about including square brackets as square brackets (instead of as a way of creating word links). Should I say sneaky or nifty?
Which means that one probably shouldn't need to use Cyrillic or other special characters at all, just the character entity numbers for the standard Latin alphabet…
frindley—HTML character codes won't work in the URLs that way (you'll be invited to list &). This piece of (hexadecimal) character encoding should work: wordie.org/words/%41%4C%4C%20%43%41%50%53
Frindley, I don't think your proposal will work: John's algorithm converts ASCII codes to their lower case equivalents. The Cyrillic characters I used aren't part of ASCII, so they bypass the conversion.
Bilby and reesetee: there's not much overlap between Cyrillic and Latin, so the end of the world is not approaching: schadenfreudgeon and most other words can't be entered in all caps. Also, searching for banana will not find ΒΑ�?Α�?Α because of the mismatch between ASCII and Cyrillic, so any word entered that way would rarely be seen once it scrolled off the home page (e.g., 音�?).
Prolagus commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
A huge banana.
April 28, 2008
gangerh commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
Please, mollusque, turn schadenfreudgeon into SCHADENFREUDGEON. That's a joke. Really, mollusque, please DON'T.
April 28, 2008
bilby commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
This feels like the end of the world :-(
April 28, 2008
john commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
Hey, how'd you manage the majuscules? Are you a hacker? Good work!
April 28, 2008
frindley commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
I'm feeling faint…
Just don't do this to TOMATO anyone.
April 28, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
http://wordie.org/words/%CE%92%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%91%CE%9D%CE%91
I'm glad most Wordie URLs are a bit more human-readable.
April 28, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
See BANhacking.
April 28, 2008
mollusque commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
I'm not a hacker, just sneaky. I used Cyrillic characters.
April 28, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
Nobody could seriously consider mollusque a kacker. We trust his experienced siphon.
April 28, 2008
bilby commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
Cyrillic? Whahahaha!
April 28, 2008
frindley commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
Ah, I think I see – this is related to my question on features about including square brackets as square brackets (instead of as a way of creating word links). Should I say sneaky or nifty?
Which means that one probably shouldn't need to use Cyrillic or other special characters at all, just the character entity numbers for the standard Latin alphabet…
For example? ALL CAPS
April 28, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
Exactly, frindley... Like that ad, once you pop...
April 28, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
I'm with bilby. The end is nigh.
April 28, 2008
bilby commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
If the end of the world is nigh ... I think I want Wordies to be near me, providing comforting synonyms for syzygy.
April 28, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
frindley—HTML character codes won't work in the URLs that way (you'll be invited to list &). This piece of (hexadecimal) character encoding should work: wordie.org/words/%41%4C%4C%20%43%41%50%53
April 29, 2008
mollusque commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
Frindley, I don't think your proposal will work: John's algorithm converts ASCII codes to their lower case equivalents. The Cyrillic characters I used aren't part of ASCII, so they bypass the conversion.
Bilby and reesetee: there's not much overlap between Cyrillic and Latin, so the end of the world is not approaching: schadenfreudgeon and most other words can't be entered in all caps. Also, searching for banana will not find ΒΑ�?Α�?Α because of the mismatch between ASCII and Cyrillic, so any word entered that way would rarely be seen once it scrolled off the home page (e.g., 音�?).
April 29, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
Yes, that's true; the encoding I gave only shows how it works in the URL, so it would still get caught by the conversion if anyone tried to list it.
April 29, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
The end of the wor(l)d? You mean, banana majuscule inferno?
April 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
This is one freaky-deaky conversation.
April 29, 2008
dontcry commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
word!
April 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
I feel ever so much better now.
April 29, 2008
jennarenn commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
OOOOOHhhhhh. I gets it now. :)
edit: No, I don't.
edit of the edit: *now* I gets it.
April 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
I'm still dying to know if mollusque is a kacker.
April 29, 2008
mollusque commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
Not yet.
April 29, 2008
gangerh commented on the word ΒΑ�?Α�?Α
YES, Prolagus. AWESOME addition! Awenone, rather.
July 7, 2008