How to hide secret messages in emoji
Using variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be clear, this is an abuse of unicode and you shouldn't do it," writes Paul Butler. "If your mind is wandering to practical use cases for this, shut it down."
Most unicode characters do not have variations associated with them. Since…
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