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Vlad Ghitulescu

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Nov 13, 2020, 9:33:34 AM11/13/20
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Hey!

I've copied some text from a HTML-email and paste it into BBEdit's Scratchpad in order to clean it before I paste this into Shopify's backend and was amazed to see this:

How could the formatted text in the row 158 survive :-) and why does BBEdit shows me the font as the monospaced JetBrains Mono

that it used above and below?!

Regards,
Vlad

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Maarten Sneep

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Nov 13, 2020, 9:40:01 AM11/13/20
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Welcome to unicode, breathing O₂ into plain text. Or redefining plain text as you know it.

This is likely clever use of some of the math alphabets in unicode.

Kind regards,

Maarten

On 2020-11-13, at 13:41, Vlad Ghitulescu <Vl...@Ghitulescu.de> wrote:

Hey!

I've copied some text from a HTML-email and paste it into BBEdit's Scratchpad in order to clean it before I paste this into Shopify's backend and was amazed to see this:

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How could the formatted text in the row 158 survive :-) and why does BBEdit shows me the font as the monospaced JetBrains Mono

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that it used above and below?!

Regards,
Vlad


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Rich Siegel

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Nov 13, 2020, 9:40:01 AM11/13/20
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On 13 Nov 2020, at 7:41, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:


> I've copied some text from a HTML-email and paste it into BBEdit's
> Scratchpad in order to clean it before I paste this into Shopify's
> backend and was amazed to see this:

There's no black magic; Unicode contains glyphs which appear in italics.
Most of them are in the "Math Alphanumeric Symbols" section.

R.

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Vlad Ghitulescu

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Nov 13, 2020, 10:25:03 AM11/13/20
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Ah, this! Thanks Maarten!

Vlad Ghitulescu

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Nov 13, 2020, 10:25:03 AM11/13/20
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I didn't know this till now!
Thanks, Rich!
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Charlie Garrison

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Nov 18, 2020, 4:41:44 PM11/18/20
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Good morning,

On 13 Nov 2020, at 23:41, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:

How could the formatted text in the row 158 survive :-) and why does BBEdit shows me the font as the monospaced JetBrains Mono

Unicode characters** that just look like other characters as formatted text.

Open the "Character Inspector" palette, select a 'formatted' character and you should find a high Unicode code point. Eg compare the 'formatted' D and the normal D - they will be different characters (with different unicode code points).

-cng

** There are LOTS of unicode characters:

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Vlad Ghitulescu

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Nov 19, 2020, 3:39:10 PM11/19/20
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Thanks, Charlie!

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