Thursday, March 23, 2006

When is an X not an X?

Kevin was typing passwords in and couldn't determine where a particular X came from. It looked different than the other X in the same password. This prompted the following research:

	Arial Unicode MS	Anonymous
Latin Capital Letter X	X	X
Latin Small Letter x	x	x
Greek Capital Letter Chi	Χ	Χ
Greek Small Letter Chi	χ	χ
Cyrillic Capital Letter Ha	Х	Х
Cyrillic Small Letter Ha	х	х
Tibetan Sign Rdel Nag Gcig	༝	༝
Roman Numeral Ten	Ⅹ	Ⅹ
Small Roman Numeral Ten	ⅹ	ⅹ
Hangzhou Numeral Four	〤	〤
Fullwidth Latin Capital Letter X	Ｘ	Ｘ
Fullwidth Latin Small Letter x	ｘ	ｘ
Box Drawings Light Diagonal Cross	╳	╳
Saltire	╳	╳
Multiplication X	✕	✕

In the end the culprit was "Multiplication X", but I have no idea how anyone typed that in...

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