Warp wrote:

>> It's a monster that turns you to stone if you see its face. Like Medeusa.
> 
>   I know. But I still don't get the *joke* in that strip.
> 

AFAIK the joke was U+FDD0 is not a renderable character, according to 
the Unicode spec, so, the eye of the basilisk is not visible, ergo no 
one turns to stone, or dies. I still can't figure out why the basilisk's 
use of a smiley emoticon would kill someone. I suppose it's because the 
person is seeing an abstract form of the basilisk's face?

It didn't make me laugh, but it did make me curious about what U+FDD0 
was, I figured it was one of the surrogating characters for use in UTF16.

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