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 ΒΑΝΑΝΑ 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., 音乐).
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
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…
YES, Prolagus. AWESOME addition! Awenone, rather.
Not yet.
I'm still dying to know if mollusque is a kacker.
OOOOOHhhhhh. I gets it now. :)
edit: No, I don't.
edit of the edit: *now* I gets it.
I feel ever so much better now.
word!
This is one freaky-deaky conversation.
The end of the wor(l)d? You mean, banana majuscule inferno?
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.
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 ΒΑΝΑΝΑ 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., 音乐).
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
If the end of the world is nigh ... I think I want Wordies to be near me, providing comforting synonyms for syzygy.
I'm with bilby. The end is nigh.
Exactly, frindley... Like that ad, once you pop...
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
Cyrillic? Whahahaha!
Nobody could seriously consider mollusque a kacker. We trust his experienced siphon.
I'm not a hacker, just sneaky. I used Cyrillic characters.
See BANhacking.
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.
I'm feeling faint…
Just don't do this to TOMATO anyone.
Hey, how'd you manage the majuscules? Are you a hacker? Good work!
This feels like the end of the world :-(
Please, mollusque, turn schadenfreudgeon into SCHADENFREUDGEON. That's a joke. Really, mollusque, please DON'T.
A huge banana.