I am partial to using Unicode Emoji to add graphics/icons to applications that don't support those. Surprisingly, almost no software removes emoji symbol range

I am partial to using Unicode Emoji to add graphics/icons to applications that don't support those. Surprisingly, almost no software removes emoji symbol range (HN does, wisely). But this seems more annoying than clever. I mean, it's still text, except barely readable and bound to break some common-sense UI interactions.