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Speaking of unicode emoji ... OpenFire the open source Jabber server will drop your connection if you send it a 💩 ...

• ars 14y ago
  Seems like either my browser or HN doesn't support such characters since I'm seeing a box with "01F 489" in it.
  • comex 14y ago
    It's your browser; the characters are standard but not widely supported outside of Apple platforms yet. Edit: you can try Symbola at http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ (and yes, I keep editing this post :p)
    • voltagex_ 14y ago
      Any idea if these are the characters GoSMS uses as "emoji"? i.e. is it a defacto standard?
      • comex 14y ago
        Dunno; I only know emoji encoding has historically been a crapfest.
      • unconed 14y ago
        The emoji unicode range was created to standardize the various characters used on Japanese mobiles. Hence why it contains e.g. the Love Hotel icon.
    • darkstalker 14y ago
      after installing the "symbola" font i can see the 💩 , thanks
      • ars 14y ago
        On debian install ttf-ancient-fonts version 2.56-1 or later (currently in testing - the one in stable does not include the symbol). I installed it and now I see it as well.
        • vacri 14y ago
          I'm not quite sure why that symbol would be in an ancient font.
          • ars 14y ago
            It's a repackaging of http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ which is titled "Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts" so I guess they used that name.