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Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac
- bandy 14y agoOSX Snow Leopard: Fail. Junk display in Safari & Chrome, Hex boxen on Firefox. Actually works in the latest version of Camino, although the story seems to have come out not quite right: Santa, Rocket, People, Fish, Pizza, Building, Movie camera, Earmuffs, Watermelon, Bike, Chicken, (Hide-and-seek) Seeker. A "If you don't see the emoji, then download these fonts" right up-front would have been immensely helpful.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoHe says right in the post that it's a feature of Lion and Mountain Lion.
- bandy 14y agoThose of us who haven't upgraded, for whatever reason, can just push a rope, eh? Display is linked to the Unicode renderer and available fonts. Either Camino did some sort of net-fetch magic for the characters it didn't have fonts for or my regular browsers are slightly broken and don't realize that they actually have the right font available.
- masklinn 14y ago> Actually works in the latest version of Camino, although the story seems to have come out not quite right: Santa, Rocket, People, Fish, Pizza, Building, Movie camera, Earmuffs, Watermelon, Bike, Chicken, (Hide-and-seek) Seeker. I get the exact same result on iOS5[0], so apparently the story just has no relation to the emoji. And the characters are not super clear at default font sizes There's a broken [NEW] emoji lower down the page though, displays as a hexbox. [0] confirmed by UnicodeChecker, the characters are {FATHER CHRISTMAS} {ROCKET} {TWO MEN HOLDING HANDS} {FISH} {SLICE OF PIZZA} {LOVE HOTEL} {MOVIE CAMERA} {HEADPHONE} {WATERMELON} {BICYCLE} {ROOSTER} {SEE-NO-EVIL MONKEY}
- xpaulbettsx 14y agoIf you're having trouble seeing the Emoji, they work great on Windows 8 and IE 10
- w1ntermute 14y agoDoesn't work in the latest Chrome on Windows 7. What fonts do I have to get to see piles of poo[0] and love hotels[1] properly? 0: http://boingboing.net/2012/02/03/unicodes-pile-of-poo-cha.html http://boingboing.net/2012/02/03/unicodes-pile-of-poo-cha.ht... 1: http://unicodelovehotel.com/ http://unicodelovehotel.com/
- lbotos 14y agoIt looks like [1] specifies 'Lucida Grande' in the CSS.
- sp332 14y agoThat second one is oddly broken (FF on Win7). I see the fallback image http://unicodelovehotel.com/unicodelovehotel.jpg http://unicodelovehotel.com/unicodelovehotel.jpg but when I select it, I get a bed with a heart over it. π© I believe that's Verdana in my browser. π© <--
- brendannee 14y agoUnicodelovehotel.com was on hacker news a while back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837359 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837359 Check out the source to see all the fallbacks I implemented to make at least something show up in most browsers/platforms.
- derleth 14y agoSymbola seems to have a number of emoji people are using. http://www.fontineed.com/font/35288_symbola http://www.fontineed.com/font/35288_symbola http://www.4shared.com/file/xh0VBvUg/Symbola.html http://www.4shared.com/file/xh0VBvUg/Symbola.html
- Dylan16807 14y agoI installed symbola months ago but nothing uses it. Do I have to edit the registry entries related to font fallbacks? What have I failed to do?
- blktiger 14y agoThis has got to be one of the most beautiful/ugly things I have ever seen!
- azar1 14y agoThis is amazing.
- tg3 14y agoHas anybody used Emoji in Dropbox folder names?
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- iamdann 14y agoHaha, well done. Bravo. π
- pixelcort 14y agoDon't forget that most of these characters fall outside the Unicode BMP. Testing your APIs with these is a great way to see if any part of them (database, serialization, etc) can't handle these codepoints.
- ken 14y agoI was actually playing with using Unicode emoji for a webpage this week. Being able to use characters as icons would be fantastically easy for a lot of use cases! Unfortunately, as others have noted, it doesn't work on many platforms: Safari works on 10.7+, Firefox doesn't seem to support it at all yet [1], and I don't follow Chromium that much any more but it seems like it's not there yet, either [2]. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715798 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715798 [2]: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435
- molf 14y agoEmoji work in most browsers. The problem is that many fonts are missing the corresponding characters. You just need to pick a good font. You'll be missing full color icons, though. Example page with an emoji character that works almost everywhere (with a web font based on Symbola): http://unicodepanda.com/ http://unicodepanda.com/
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- ken 14y agoI would guess that most fonts will lack emoji characters, and always will, just like most fonts won't have all umpteen-thousand hanzi/kanji. I'm no expert on HTML fonts, but I thought it was the browser's job to find and use a font which contains the character on the page. I can write Japanese text, and specify it should be "Comic Sans", and every web browser I've ever tried will pick a reasonable font to display them, rather than leaving a Comic Sans-sized blank area on the page. OS X comes with at least one font with these characters, yet apart from Safari, none of my web browsers can seem to use it. To me, that means it doesn't work.
- tmarthal 14y agoWhile not exactly what you are proposing, ff you want/need to use characters as icons, there is a pretty neat hack called Font Awesome (http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/). It's used to replace the twitter bootstrap icons with font files; seems to work pretty well so far (with no need to re-color individual icons... you can style the font/icons with css). Things like <div class="icon-flag" style="color:red; font-size:36px"> will create a 36point red flag character for you.
- gojomo 14y agoUnless the Emoji-American community steps out of the shadows and organizes into effective advocacy groups, many of these gaps in functionality will never be closed.
- rlt3 14y agoPerhaps I am missing something, but how does a picture of Santa Claus, Rocket, 2 People, Fish, Pizza and other seemingly out of place things translate into "Let's go meet at Chipotle and..." I assume that this is an error. I couldn't get it to work in Firefox on OSX 10.7 so I used Safari. http://i.imgur.com/Tpnyc.png http://i.imgur.com/Tpnyc.png
- strager 14y agoIt's a joke.
- rlt3 14y agoOh man, I feel stupid. I attempted to read the article at first, but Firefox, on OSX, didn't display anything at all. So I got confused and kept re-reading the first paragraph or so before I realized something was missing. By that point I wasn't focused on actually reading the article, but getting the emoji on the screen. All well
- CubicleNinjas 14y agoI think its the emoji piece's subtext. The tiny Santa represents the writers angst towards an unfair society, while the rocket ship is suggesting using a rocket to visit said Chipotle.
- drdoooom 14y agoI guess he read the reddit post 2 days ago.
- fishcakes 14y agoif you haven't tried using π° as the name of a branch in git well then you haven't lived.
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- abruzzi 14y agoPanic was first with an emoji domain: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom... http://π©.la http://π©.la
- jkubicek 14y agoFunny. I ran into an issue a few weeks ago where coworkers couldn't see me when I was online. Turns out my computer name (ππ¨) caused an error in Adium (which most coworkers use for chat). Who knows what other weird issues this was causing... so I reverted back to a proper ASCII computer name.
- citricsquid 14y agoquitter!
- WiseWeasel 14y agoHere's hoping for a monospace emoji font variant, so we can use them in our code. That 'pile of shit' tag might come in handy.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoWell, it's in Unicode... why not recreate the control character smiley faces from the US IBM code page? :)
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- sneakyness 14y agoSURROGATE PAIRS.
- cutie 14y agoIt's a shame on OSX/iOS. When I've used these characters and viewed on Safari it turns them into raster icons ... exactly what I don't want. Windows and Linux are fine. Anyone know how to disable this "feature?"
- batista 14y ago>It's a shame on OSX/iOS. When I've used these characters and viewed on Safari it turns them into raster icons ... exactly what I don't want. Windows and Linux are fine. Your comment does not make sense. 1) When "you've used these characters" where? On a webpage? 2) They ARE raster icons. What did you expect them to be? Fonts don't have multiple colors. 3) How does "Windows and Linux" handle them better? Most apps there don't handle them AT ALL.
- mkl 14y agoYou seem to be mistaken. Some operating systems display them as colour images, but that is not essential at all. They are mapped to Unicode characters, and so when displayed as characters, as in normal applications with an appropriate font, they are vector-based and monochrome. See e.g. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
- batista 14y agoYes, but the full on experience is the translation to full color images. That's how the Japanese use them in their mobiles, no?
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoYep.
- cutie 14y agoThese are unicode codepoints and handled just fine everywhere but on Apple gear, and (I think IE6/XP). If you've never seen them it means you are on Apple or never bothered to install the fonts.
- phillco 14y agoThis was a really entertaining post. Well done! π
- loeschg 14y agoIs there any way to make Emoji part of a custom bash prompt in Terminal? That would be rad.
- chrisrogers 14y agoyes, terminal.app will render emoji. A friend has a pizza slice as his prompt
- loeschg 14y agoDo you know how he set the custom prompt? I was trying to edit my .bash_profile and couldn't use emoji.
- millerm 14y agoThat article made me laugh pretty freakin' hard.
- rdevnull 14y agosee what happens when the zoo takes over https://twitter.com/1dotai/status/248950126717050880 https://twitter.com/1dotai/status/248950126717050880
- jff 14y agohttps://gist.github.com/3739562 https://gist.github.com/3739562 Russ Cox and Dennis Ritchie remind us (from a decade or two ago) that just because you can, doesn't mean you should
- fphilipe 14y agoWikipedia has had article URLs with emojis for quite some time now: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/π http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/π -> Hamburger * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/π© http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/π© -> Feces * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/π http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/π -> Human eye * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/π§ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/π§ -> Automated teller machine
- brendannee 14y agoJust renamed my wireless networks with a cityscape and bar theme: https://img.skitch.com/20120921-8r3d1uchbsphatfjf9iuc9wx2c.png https://img.skitch.com/20120921-8r3d1uchbsphatfjf9iuc9wx2c.p...
- MattBearman 14y agoAnnoyingly Emoji is not rendered in Google Chrome on OSX Lion (my main browser), I just get blank spaces, it's the same in Firefox. It seems Emoji only works in Safari on Lion.
- robbiep 14y agoyeah, I found the same - however on mouseover and clickthrough on the wiki links to the emoji pages (above this post in the comments) I am getting the characters in both the link preview and in the title bar. strange
- emehrkay 14y agoMy work computer (Mac) is named > (β―Β°β‘Β°οΌβ―οΈ΅ β»ββ» With the table replaced by my name upside down. Windows machines don't even bother to show it.
- callumacrae 14y agoMy new iPhone is now a piece of poo :-D