Emoji

Nov 07, 2010 19:14

It has symbols like shamrock! And rainbow! And misty morning dew! And some of the most ferocious glyphs to be found on the cell phones of Japan!

I'm talking about the Emoji character set, a collection of emoticons which has achieved recognition in Unicode 6.0! It really does include shamrock (U+1F340) and rainbow (U+1F308) symbols. There's actually no misty morning dew, though "Foggy" (U+1F301) is somewhat close.

The world of character codings is stranger than you can imagine.
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