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Sat, 04 Feb 2023 12:18:26 +1100
So I'm stopped at a highway road works project and suddenly I get the idea - hey what if we had Unicode license plates. Wouldn't that be cool? And why did I suddenly think of this?
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Bill Statler (1 year ago)
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Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)
Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:22:31 +1100
Why did you suddenly think of this?
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Martin Farrent
Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:24:10 +1100
last edited: Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:25:26 +1100
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Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)
I think Australia has gone to bed, so you'll have to wait for the answer.
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Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) (1 year ago)
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Mike Macgirvin
Sun, 05 Feb 2023 07:47:16 +1100
It's an inside joke for tech nerds. I'll give you a hint: International Domain Names use Unicode characters. There's an encoding standard called 'punycode' which converts these to US-ASCII (7-bit) text because URLs are limited to 7-bit US-ASCII. A Unicode name which has been converted to 7-bit US-ASCII always starts with the prefix 'xn--'
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Scott M. Stolz
Sun, 05 Feb 2023 08:06:03 +1100
And toll cameras and speed cameras wouldn't understand it.
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Badde Baddelay
Sun, 05 Feb 2023 08:35:09 +1100
I like how you see things.
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