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by roddds 2060 days ago
๐”๐ง๐ข๐œ๐จ๐๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ.

๐—จ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜.

๐‘ˆ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘–๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘ก.

๐˜œ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต.

๐‘ผ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’๐’…๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’๐’๐’๐’Œ ๐’”๐’Š๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’“ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‡๐’๐’“๐’Ž๐’‚๐’•๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’•.

๐™๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™˜๐™ค๐™™๐™š ๐™๐™–๐™จ ๐™˜๐™๐™–๐™ง๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™  ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ข๐™ž๐™ก๐™–๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง๐™ข๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ญ๐™ฉ.

(Don't do this: it's _terrible_ for accessibility, as screen readers can't parse these as regular text)

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Can confirm. All I see are [X]'s.

๐”๐ง๐ข๐œ๐จ๐๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ.

I'm curious if that copied the text or the placeholders. It's like hunter2 for the modern era.

> I'm curious if that copied the text or the placeholders.

It copied the text.

FWIW for most of these sorts of things you can scrub it via passing the text through an NFKC or NFKD transform. I'd hope that a screen reader can be updated to handle this case.