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- bdcs 12y agoFor me on OSX/chrome, the emoji to properly renders in the address bar but not on HN or wikipedia. Suggestions?
- kyberias 12y agoSame on Windows 8.1 + Chrome
- andreastt 12y agoThis is a problem in Chrome only. It renders fine in Firefox and Safari.
- bribri 12y agoIt appears in the favicon in the comments on chrome also
- nextstep 12y agoChrome does its own text rendering and their font doesn't have characters for the emoji code points. There are a number of chrome extensions that add these characters. (Here's one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for-google/cahedbegdkagmcjfolhdlechbkeaieki?hl=en-GB https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for...) You can also use Safari on OS X.
- wtallis 12y agoI can sort of understand why a cross-platform browser engine might include its own text rendering engine, but is there any justification for it not making use of the fonts on the local machine to fill in the necessarily large holes in what fonts the browser bundles?
- defcon84 12y agoWin7/Chrome doesn't render it.. Outlook 2010 (rss reader) does :)
- saidajigumi 12y agoFWIW, the emoji character works fine in all contexts I've seen it: status bar URL hover, location bar and on HN and the Wikipedia web pages. This with OS X/FF 31.
- anigbrowl 12y agoHow did you find that? EDIT: if I wasn't using Chrome I wouldn't have to ask :-( I don't know how I feel about the Emoji trend.
- tantalor 12y agohttp://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=Bridge http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?p...
- ubernostrum 12y agohttp://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=Bridge http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?p...
- kyberias 12y agoUnicode "Bridge at night"?
- Alupis 12y agoWhy are emoji's being used in URL's now... ? For me, it's just a square. On Windows 7 SP1 + Chrome. This is not a good trend to set.
- isaacwaller 12y agoSafari, Firefox and Internet Explorer support emoji on all platforms. Chrome is the only browser not to support emoji.
- tammer 12y agoI don't know if it's good or bad. But, it leads me to an interesting thought experiment. If the trend of using emoji in Western discourse continues to increase in popularity indefinitely, could the English language of 200-500 years in the future officially incorporate ideograms of some sort?
- Alupis 12y agoI think it will become more prevalent in Eastern culture before Western -- ie. it allows characters in the native language... instead of only Western (English) characters. But then again... I don't have a bridge character on my keyboard...
- papa_bear 12y agoFor anyone that is seeing the square block, if you have a browser that supports emojis it looks like an emoji bridge. It's interesting that even though Chrome won't display it in the text, it does render the emoji in the title bar of the tab.
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- Rygu 12y agoMac users can install https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for-google/cahedbegdkagmcjfolhdlechbkeaieki?hl=en-GB https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for... Works like a charm!
- mitchty 12y agoIt shows fine in safari on 10.10 at least.
- glasshead969 12y agochrome doesn't support emoji yet. http://blog.getemoji.com/post/73341182572/its-2014-why-doesnt-chrome-support-emoji http://blog.getemoji.com/post/73341182572/its-2014-why-doesn...
- nextstep 12y agoLooks like a number of emoji will redirect you to the proper Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐘 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐘 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐕 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐕 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💋 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💋
- MatmaRex 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💩 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💩 I'm pretty sure every Unicode character will (unless somebody missed any). There are Unicode character charts on Wikipedia too, and they're fully linkified, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrows_(Unicode_block) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrows_(Unicode_block)
- _delirium 12y agoThere's a list of all 18,038 single-Unicode-character titles that redirect somewhere here (although most are not emoji): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_Unicode_characters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_Unicod...
- euank 12y agoThis is an interesting oddity such as you might expect to see on reddit's /r/mildlyinteresting or til, but I don't feel that this fits well on HN personally. I'm not saying HN is turning into reddit by having this content, just pointing out how I'd classify this content. This is absolutely not "intellectually gratifying" in my mind. The fact that it can be trivially consumed (as opposed to a long blog post) might in part lead to it having a higher number of upvotes due to being more accessible, but that doesn't mean that it's better than a less accessible item that gets more upvotes relative to people consuming it, but fewer as an absolute. Edit: It was 1st for about two minutes and then dropped down to 198 instantly (among items from 1-3 days ago and/or with over 20 times fewer points). I'll hazard a guess that the mods agree with me on this and nuked it down.
- gedrap 12y agoI've said that dozens of times and got quite tired of repeating, so briefly speaking, it's because it takes only ~5 votes within first 30-60min to make the front page. The best thing you can do about it is to go to /newest and help to bring good content to the homepage :) Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it as long as it's once in a few days. Was it a regular trend, then it would be worth flagging.
- euank 12y agoThis is an anomaly that your explanation doesn't apply to though. Notice that it has 50 points and is half an hour old. I count 12 items on the front page currently that have 50 or fewer points and are 1 or more hours old and yet remain there. These items are generally quality content (such as the tinfoil security post -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086834 -- which sits at 37 points / 3 hours). Your explanation of "5 votes within the first 30 minutes" completely disregards that this has as many votes as many other items on the front page, but in a fraction of the time period.
- yeukhon 12y ago(At first I thought "oh no XSS! Like the one on TweetDeck!) Then I saw "emoji" and that reminds me the recent sushi comment on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8066226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8066226). Yes. Now we got .tk we can add unicode character! Emoji...
- jebus989 12y agoAnyone can make a redirect to anything, generally they don't face much scrutiny because "redirects are cheap" [0]. Though there has been some discussion about deleting those that are just emojis e.g. [1-2]. Here's a category of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Redirects_from_Unicode_characters&from=~%0A%F0%9F%98%80 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Redirect... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_are_cheap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_are_cheap [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2013_March_8#.F0.9F.94.94 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discus... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2014_May_30#.F0.9F.97.BE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discus...
- metafocus 12y agoFor correctly rendering a vast number of Unicode glyphs (including the mentioned 'bridge at night'), I highly recommend installing the Symbola font http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/symbola/ http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/symbola/ Both Firefox and Chromium are able to render the glyphs by merely having a capable font installed in your system.