Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> 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?

no, supposedly, U+FDD0 is the invisible character preceding the emoticon?


Unicode chars.  By the time you googled it all and is ready for the laugh, the
magic is gone... ;)

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