Emoji: how do you render U+1F355?

by holman on 5/20/2016, 10:39 PM with 51 comments
  • by chungy on 5/21/2016, 2:27 AM

    "An emoji is a coloured glyph."

    OK. Stop right there. An emoji is a glyph, it need not be colored. The funny part, is that on my system and my fonts, all the examples (not provided as PNGs) are plain black-and-white renderings with the Symbola font. Even on Chrome on Linux, I don't even see the Canadian flag example she shows.

    Really, most of this seems solid but it continues a rather annoying trend of assuming that Apple's font are the emoji. At least she recognizes that other fonts exist, but carries on this assumption...

  • by hobarrera on 5/20/2016, 11:40 PM

    FWIW, linux also has some emoji that are colour, albeit, gecko-only: https://github.com/eosrei/twemoji-color-font

  • by forgottenpass on 5/20/2016, 6:17 PM

    Emoji does not have a plural in Japanese, so stop trying to make emojis happen.

    In the long run, I would have preferred Gretchen make fetch happen rather than Regina make this turn of phrase happen.

  • by trevorcreech on 5/21/2016, 1:09 AM

    Make sure you click the party emoji in the left menu.

  • by Bromskloss on 5/21/2016, 10:21 AM

    Can we fork Unicode into a version that has none of these… things?

  • by paulddraper on 5/21/2016, 3:18 AM

    Is this a JS blog? It suddenly started talking about JavaScript for some reason.

  • by the8472 on 5/21/2016, 5:59 PM

    And yet we still don't have a good way of doing keyboard-input of arbitrary unicode characters based on their name / description.

  • by petercooper on 5/21/2016, 12:02 PM

    We're using emojis as icons within an internal app now, and it works fantastically. I was kinda against emojis at first but having seen the use cases, they seem to be working out well.

  • by amelius on 5/21/2016, 2:26 AM

    Related, why is Whatsapp missing the facepalm emoji, U+1F926?

  • by soared on 5/21/2016, 7:08 PM

    Does anyone know which atom theme that is? All I found was a squirrel in the html.

  • by gabrielcsapo on 5/21/2016, 2:30 AM

    Awesome article! Thanks for the share!

  • by spdionis on 5/21/2016, 8:55 AM

    FFS why do we even need emoji? This is ridiculous.

  • by paulddraper on 5/21/2016, 3:19 AM

    Sigh. I remember when font color used to mean something.

  • by wodenokoto on 5/20/2016, 12:39 PM

    I could have done without the first paragraph, but other than that this was interesting and well written.

    I particularly enjoyed the roll-over effect on the links.

  • by gcb0 on 5/21/2016, 2:32 AM

    hint: if you write an article about something that is broken and constantly moving by the hour, do not use that thing to document your article.

    if she didn't use utf but images (to talk about the rendering) that article would have been something in 4 days, when it will be irrelevant because fonts and browsers will already have changed.

    Also, people on the several platforms she dismissed as nobody-cares (android pre 5, linux, windows pre-7, etc) would have had a clue about the subject.