Jonnybrx Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 I just realized that the greek letter that is used in the name of this wonderful client is Mu. The lower case version is the µ that you always see, and the capital version just looks like M. This letter is not the greek alternative for u, it is the alternative for M. But since the Mu looks like a u we are calling it utorrent. But really its not a u. Just to let everyone know. And there is no letter for U in the greek alphabet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=2829http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=19We know, it's been discussed before. Some of us call it uTorrent because of the domain, and because it's easier/more natural sounding to say that instead of myu-Torrent or microTorrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 I say "U-Torrent" because it's yeah, easier to say.But I always write µTorrent because that's what it's called.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webdr Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 @splintax you shouldnt write www.µtorrent.com (always=almost???) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignorantcow Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 µtorrent.com is read as c2b5torrent.com by domain registars. hahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 ignorantcow: it's also .C2.B5 in an href/name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animorc Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 That link got the url http://www.xn--torrent-jof.com/ Was that what you posted?Edit: Internet Explorer writes out the url µtorrent.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryz Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 I just realized that the greek letter that is used in the name of this wonderful client is Mu. The lower case version is the µ that you always see, and the capital version just looks like M. This letter is not the greek alternative for u, it is the alternative for M. But since the Mu looks like a u we are calling it utorrent. But really its not a u. Just to let everyone know. And there is no letter for U in the greek alphabet.Thanks for the info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JigPu Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 /me says either "You Torrent" or "Mew Torrent".JigPu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webdr Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Umut Torrent (umut is my real name) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightshifted Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 ...Wouldn't a cow say "mootor--" No, I can't finish that. It's too corny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 µtorrent.com is read as c2b5torrent.com by domain registars. hahahaActually I just tried this today to see if Unicode characters were allowed in domain names (in theory they are: IDN). Entering ht tp://www.µtorrent.com in a browser will redirect you to ht tp://www.µtorrent.com/perl/main.pl which just shows "Not Found". Running it through whois returns it as being registered to VeriSign. Pinging it gives you the same IP as shown in the whois: 198.41.1.35. Going to ht tp://198.41.1.35/ brings you to ht tp://sitefinder.verisign.com/lpc?url=198.41.1.35&host=198.41.1.35. (Astute experimenters will understand what's going on here because they'll have noticed that when you enter µtorrent.com into a browser, the status bar will flash auto.search.msn.com ) In fact, using any foreign characters in a URL will likely bring your browser to a VeriSign page that prompts you to install i-Nav to allow you browse to URLs with foreign characters.For those that do not know, µtorrent.com becomes c2b5torrent.com because µ when entered as 0181 is a double-wide UNICODE character. That means that it takes TWO bytes, or 16 Bits to represent it. The first is 0xC2 (194), and the second is 0xB5 (181). When you run that address through an application or app module that does not support Unicode, it mangles the character. Some will turn it into "c2b5torrent", others will turn it into "-¦torrent" (that last one contains two box-drawing characters from IBM's extended ASCII set, and there is no Unicode equivalent so international users may not see them.)...Wouldn't a cow say "mootor--" No' date=' I can't finish that. It's too corny.[/quote']No, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 no, it's supposed to be www.xn--torrent-jof.com . if you're getting redirected to some lame verisign site, that's just IE's crummy auto-search and lack of IDN support.C2B5 (or %C2%B5 or .C2.B5) is only used with URL encoding, and only in parts that are not the domain. IDNs use punycode to translate unicode characters into ascii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archon02 Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 actually i dont belive its MuTorrent or uTorrent....the greek letter Mu in elcetronics and shit like that means micro, and with their phrase 'A (very) tiny bit torrent client' i think that the name is microTorrent... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 Hm, hundredth post I've made that should be ignored? Didn't realize this is about pronounciation... er, I dunno what else it could have been about other than that, but it never registered in my mind... Sorry xDSidenote: I wish they had a strikethrough BBCode... just for people like me lolOriginal MessageDoesn't really matter, as ludde himself isn't 100% sure what he'd call it. In the end, it's µTorrent -- not uTorrent, not microTorrent, not MuTorrent, not whatever other alternative names there are =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightshifted Posted April 9, 2006 Report Share Posted April 9, 2006 Archon02: NFK.Utlimate: Ergo, when we pronounce it we should not use the name of the letter μ nor utter the prefix "micro" (and certainly not "you" nor "oo"), but rather we should pronounce the letter μ by the sound it represents? So we should say "mtorrent," starting with closed lips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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