From 468700b890bf9a0fd8e897dfb9dbf09ec08d99c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:49:35 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Use footnote links in Upside down text post & point out kernel.org joke. --- posts/Upside-down_text.mdwn | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/posts/Upside-down_text.mdwn b/posts/Upside-down_text.mdwn index e8a8361..5fda84a 100644 --- a/posts/Upside-down_text.mdwn +++ b/posts/Upside-down_text.mdwn @@ -1,10 +1,7 @@ [[!meta title="ʇxǝʇ uʍop-ǝpısd∩"]] -[Upside-down -text](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_of_text#Upside-down_text) -(actually, rotated by π) appears to have been a hit last summer, but -I've been seeing a bit on -[#python](http://www.python.org/community/irc/) recently: +[Upside-down text][] (actually, rotated by π) appears to have been a +hit last summer, but I've been seeing a bit on [#python][] recently: 15:21 < lieuwe> dash: so how should i call decode on a possibly unsafe string? ... @@ -17,10 +14,8 @@ The Unicode people apparently didn't see a need to methodically rotate characters, so while many have official "turned" forms (e.g. ɐ (U+0250) LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED A), many others do not. The solution seems to be hunting around through the unicode tables looking -for [homoglyphs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyphs) (which turns -out to be an interesting [phishing -scheme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack) in its own -right). +for [homoglyphs][] (which turns out to be an interesting [phishing +scheme][] in its own right). Anyhow, none of the implementations I found addressed conversion of ASCII characters with the scope and formality I felt this important @@ -30,4 +25,14 @@ topic deserved, so I put together [[my own converter|180.py]] ;). Update: It seems that ikiwiki [doesn't like UTF-8 filenames](http://ikiwiki.info/todo/should_use_a_standard_encoding_for_utf_chars_in_filenames/). +Update: As an April Fools joke this year, [kernel.org][] [rotated its +entire main page][rotated]. + +[Upside-down text]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_of_text#Upside-down_text +[#python]: http://www.python.org/community/irc/ +[homoglyphs]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyphs +[phishing scheme]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack +[kernel.org]: http://www.kernel.org/ +[rotated]: http://userweb.kernel.org/~warthog9/april1/2010/ + [[!tag tags/fun]] -- 2.26.2