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Unicode Love Hotel
- jjacobson 15y agoIf my state supported UTF-32, I'd name my next kid this.
- Zr40 15y agoAny Unicode encoding (such as the more common UTF-8) will do just fine.
- TobbenTM 15y agoPoor child, think of all the problems he will encounter once he discovers the internet!
- steve-howard 15y agoIt's all well and good until the poor kid's teacher thinks it's Windows-1252 and the whole class laughs at him.
- brendannee 15y agoIt looks different on OS X between Safari and Chrome - Safari uses the built in Lucida Grande font to render a full color unicode love hotel, chrome tries to use the black and white symbola font. You actually see a fallback image with the transparent character on top in all other browsers, since there isn't support for unicode characters this high (U+1F3E9). If you highlight and right click on the love hotel character on OS X you'll see "Search google for '🏩'" with the full color love hotel character.
- mrsteveman1 15y agoI believe it's actually in the special Apple Color Emoji font http://i.imgur.com/sNNAZ.png http://i.imgur.com/sNNAZ.png
- farnsworth 15y agoWhat program is that?
- mrsteveman1 15y agoCodepoints http://infincia.com/apps/codepoints http://infincia.com/apps/codepoints :)
- mrweasel 15y agoOpera just goes all in and renders both the full color version and the black and white. http://imgur.com/WiiNJ http://imgur.com/WiiNJ
- brendannee 15y agoThanks - I didn't test Opera, I updated it to show only the color (actual) character in opera and not show the fallback image
- wazoox 15y agoSafari only displays a black square on my Mac. Overall, Firefox gives the best looking result.
- biftek 15y ago🏩
- ortatherox 15y agoDuck duck go does a great job when you search for the unicode love hotel! http://cl.ly/3a07430F2i1M1Z1H3u0V http://cl.ly/3a07430F2i1M1Z1H3u0V
- brendannee 15y agoDuck duck go beats google in this case: https://img.skitch.com/20120413-gs9cnmdrcnfgcx3idct62xp35y.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20120413-gs9cnmdrcnfgcx3idct62xp35y.j...
- dmethvin 15y agoI think it's just a matter of time before some legitimate cardiology hospital accidentally adopts this as their logo.
- whamill 15y agohttp://www.unicodesnowmanforyou.com http://www.unicodesnowmanforyou.com
- brendannee 15y agoThat was my inspiration for this site.
- jbverschoor 15y agoLol 🏩
- kijin 15y agoA domain dedicated to one Unicode code point! I guess it's only a matter of time before "pile of poo" (U+1F4A9) gets its own domain, too.
- mietek 15y agoYeah... About that... http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...
- brendannee 15y agoLooks like you can get <unicode>.tk domain names, anyone want 🏩.tk? https://img.skitch.com/20120413-b67rwn29c4aydc73jyt3jfwsnk.jpg https://img.skitch.com/20120413-b67rwn29c4aydc73jyt3jfwsnk.j...
- jerf 15y agoLong predated by "Unicode Snowman for You": http://xn--n3h.net/ http://xn--n3h.net/ Or http://☃.net http://☃.net if you prefer. Interestingly, I observe my font is rendering the snowflakes around the snowman as pentagons. Some font designer needs to study some more science.
- brendannee 15y agoYou can remap capslock to <lovehotel> for easy access, if you end up typing it a lot.
- Dylan16807 15y agoSo what does it take to make my windows browser show the actual character and not the fallback?
- jjacobson 15y agoTry Safari or Opera
- Dylan16807 15y agoI'm already on Opera. What fonts do I need?
- theon144 15y agoHonestly, who decides what characters should be included?
- philodespotos 15y agoThe Unicode Consortium manages the process of defining the unicode standard. Various committees are formed, composed of representatives from whatever other standards bodies are interested and from companies with a stake in the standard. I learned the answer after reading a great talk (in blog post form) about the ever-growing unicode character set: http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/love-hotels-and-unicode/ http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/love-hotels-and-unicode/