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Interestingly, SLICE OF PIZZA (and many other unlisted emojis) can render as text for me (on Windows 10). Did Microsoft implement them out-of-spec? Here along

• zinekeller 4y ago
  That's Segoe UI Symbol: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/segoe-ui-symbol https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/segoe-.... The reason these exists is for backwards compatibility: fonts that bring their own colors is a weird thing that is brought from the future, so Microsoft has always these fallback fonts. Ironically, the biggest consumer of these is Google Chrome until they bothered to fix their browser to render color fonts (emoji fonts are very messy - Apple uses PNG-in-OTFs, Google uses a proprietary bitmap format, Adobe and Mozilla supported SVG-in-TTFs, and Microsoft having a custom vector format). Also, there are other contexts where color is a bad thing, so this set is used instead. (Actually, Segoe UI Emoji (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/segoe-ui-emoji https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/segoe-...) does have also the fallback B&W emojis, but the proper way is to refer to Segoe UI Symbol first.)