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There is even an actual Unicode symbol for the left-pointing magnifying glass ([1]) that they are using, yet they use the PUA anyways. I use the [1] Unicode sy
by Sephr 11y ago
There is even an actual Unicode symbol for the left-pointing magnifying glass ([1]) that they are using, yet they use the PUA anyways.
I use the [1] Unicode symbol semantically on my blog with a custom font at http://eligrey.com/blog/ http://eligrey.com/blog/
1. Edit: Hacker News seems to have stripped the character from my message. I am referring to U+1F50D left-pointing magnifying glass.
- tombrossman 11y agoNB I still get a broken character and not the magnifying glass on your site: https://imgur.com/a/3Rb7t https://imgur.com/a/3Rb7t
- ChrisGranger 11y agoI've made a point of installing a variety of extra Unicode fonts like Symbola, and I still find sites with characters that don't render properly. I do see the magnifying glass on the parent comment's site though...