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Unicode 6.1 released complete with emoji characters and a pile of poo

45 points by jacobr 15y ago

lautis 15y ago
Emoji code points (including the pile of poo) have actually been in Unicode since 6.0, but now they've added colored "emoji style" variants for the characters. Previously the standard only defined black and white "text style" glyphs.
bwarp 15y ago
That has actually made my day!
wiradikusuma 15y ago
Does Lion support this? (please say Yes)
- robert-boehnke 15y ago
  Depends on your browser, http://pile-of-poo.inunico.de/ http://pile-of-poo.inunico.de/ works for me in Safari but not Chrome.
- LaGrange 15y ago
  I just tried this, sending from Verbs (iOS 5 supports emoji since forever), and yes, I can see the 😘❤😊🍸💚💤❕💙😰😥😭🏠❔💗👿👽💩🎵💦🐱🐶🐭🐹🐰🐺🐗🐮🐷🐻🐨🐯🐸🐵🐒🐴🐎🐫🐑🐘 with no problem whatsoever :-)
- ConstantineXVI 15y ago
  Doesn't render in Chrome (likely because they're in a seperate font set), but OSX does include it. And for some reason, it's smiling. https://skitch.com/constantinexvi/g6pbb/untitled https://skitch.com/constantinexvi/g6pbb/untitled
  - a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
    Translation: "That's a pile of poo. And I mean that in the nicest possible way."
- microtherion 15y ago
  Yes, you can enter the Emoji through the "Special Character…" item in the Edit menu. Lion even speaks Emoji: say -v Alex '💩'
sambeau 15y ago
Panic have already bought a poop domain name: http://💩.la/ http://💩.la/ read about it here: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...
ck2 15y ago
Just to add something useful to this (pile of poo) A very handy firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/character-identifier/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/character-ide... Highlight the characters you are confused about and right click and get the code points/description for them.
- derleth 15y ago
  In addition, if you want to know which font a glyph is coming from, this extension adds "Show Fonts in Selection" to the context menu, in addition to letting you list every font used on the page and where they come from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fontinfo/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fontinfo/
derleth 15y ago
The font Symbola already has the PILE OF POO glyph, in addition to a number of glyphs for ancient scripts. http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
joejohnson 15y ago
Pile of Poo was actually included in Unicode 6.0

45 points by jacobr 15y ago

Emoji code points (including the pile of poo) have actually been in Unicode since 6.0, but now they've added colored "emoji style" variants for the characters. Previously the standard only defined black and white "text style" glyphs.

bwarp 15y ago

That has actually made my day!

wiradikusuma 15y ago

Does Lion support this? (please say Yes)

robert-boehnke 15y ago
Depends on your browser, http://pile-of-poo.inunico.de/ http://pile-of-poo.inunico.de/ works for me in Safari but not Chrome.
LaGrange 15y ago
I just tried this, sending from Verbs (iOS 5 supports emoji since forever), and yes, I can see the 😘❤😊🍸💚💤❕💙😰😥😭🏠❔💗👿👽💩🎵💦🐱🐶🐭🐹🐰🐺🐗🐮🐷🐻🐨🐯🐸🐵🐒🐴🐎🐫🐑🐘 with no problem whatsoever :-)
ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Doesn't render in Chrome (likely because they're in a seperate font set), but OSX does include it. And for some reason, it's smiling. https://skitch.com/constantinexvi/g6pbb/untitled https://skitch.com/constantinexvi/g6pbb/untitled
- a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
  Translation: "That's a pile of poo. And I mean that in the nicest possible way."
microtherion 15y ago
Yes, you can enter the Emoji through the "Special Character…" item in the Edit menu. Lion even speaks Emoji: say -v Alex '💩'

sambeau 15y ago

Panic have already bought a poop domain name: http://💩.la/ http://💩.la/ read about it here: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...

ck2 15y ago

Just to add something useful to this (pile of poo) A very handy firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/character-identifier/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/character-ide... Highlight the characters you are confused about and right click and get the code points/description for them.

derleth 15y ago
In addition, if you want to know which font a glyph is coming from, this extension adds "Show Fonts in Selection" to the context menu, in addition to letting you list every font used on the page and where they come from: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fontinfo/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fontinfo/

derleth 15y ago

The font Symbola already has the PILE OF POO glyph, in addition to a number of glyphs for ancient scripts. http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

joejohnson 15y ago

Pile of Poo was actually included in Unicode 6.0