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++ Very inventive!

At first glance, I thought the middle character was a shrimp (jumping out of the water). This led to my initial attempt at a translation:

"OK, don't come the raw prawn with me, Perl!"

After some research:

Another thought was the minimalistic Unicode (but not emoji) replacement of the current Ken with Kensp; — but that would just look like:

— K 

and the cleverness would be lost in the rendering.

Post-preview footnote: Although HTML5 allows named character references without a leading ampersand, it would appear that PM does not. The markup "Kensp;" renders here as "Kensp;". I needed to change that to "K " to get the "K " you see above. Further loss of cleverness. :-(

— Ken

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Re^9: Larger profile pic than 80KB?
by hippo (Archbishop) on Oct 23, 2023 at 15:45 UTC
    Although HTML5 allows named character references without a leading ampersand

    Are you completely sure about that? I don't see how it would work in practice as there are enough genuine words in many languages which might precede a semi-colon and then would be ambiguous, eg. baring; would get parsed into bå which would be surprising to say the least.

    🦛

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      "Are you completely sure about that?"

      Well I was: I argued the same as you when I first encountered it. I even recall giving a similar example where it would fail.

      However, looking into it a bit further, I find (in "HTML Living Standard: 13.1.4 Character references"):

      "Character references must start with a U+0026 AMPERSAND character (&)."

      So, you're right and I'm wrong for the current iteration of the (perpetual WIP) HTML5 standard. I dislike these so-called "living documents" for this very reason. Anyway, thanks for prompting me to re-research this. ++

      — Ken

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      This an update to my previous reply, two days ago.

      It occurs to me that what I had seen was a required, leading ampersand and an optional, trailing semicolon.

      I suspect the lack of ampersands in the very long list of "HTML Living Standard: 13.5 Named character references" threw me. I see the Note there mentions "... some appear both with and without the trailing semicolon ...".

      I always include both the ampersand and semicolon. The one exception is in the post above where I was trying to be clever and failed miserably. :-(

      Again, thanks for pointing this out.

      — Ken

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