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Your comment makes a weak case for this special symbol need, since it uses the :) smiley rather than the "Unicode Smiley"
by Drakim 11y ago
Your comment makes a weak case for this special symbol need, since it uses the :) smiley rather than the "Unicode Smiley"
- DanBC 11y agoHN filters some Unicode. Parent post may have used an emoji that got filtered out.
- oblio 11y agoIt's actually lack of application support for emojis on desktop. But mobile devices, where you really want to be efficient when typing, do have support for Unicode smileys. So my point still stands :)
- DanBC 11y ago:-) But even on a mobile device, if you used a Unicode smiley, the HN software would filter it out.
- oblio 11y agoI wonder if it's just lack of proper Unicode support or some sort of protection against Unicode shenanigans.
- jerf 11y agoProtection. Unicode is supported in general: éѲ報.
- eric_h 11y agoUnicode smiley, sure, but it would appear that not all emoji's are filtered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202935 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202935