should support literal search, duh

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should support literal search, duh #1

Open dthtvwls opened 8 years ago

jessetane commented 8 years ago

You're right, there definitely needs to be a way to do this! In my mind, search is for finding characters you can describe but don't have on hand, and urls are for literal lookups. That said, urls were previously hex strings which are next to useless for humans... so I've changed it - now copy and pasting emoji for example should work:

http://unicodes.jessetane.com/⛈

jessetane commented 8 years ago

Someone else asked me about this the other day. Maybe single character searches should be treated as lookups, but anything longer as an actual search?

ppo commented 3 years ago

It would be great to also work with character identifiers like…

U+203E (or 203E)
UTF-* encoding: 0xE2 0x80 0xBE (+on each part), 0x203E, 0x0000203E
htmlentities: &#8254, &#x203E, &oline
…

PS: And thank you for this great/useful tool 😀