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Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Some of these don't show up for me (like Saturn). This might work better with a web-font? Although then you'd lose the harmonious platform emojis. I wonder if there's a way to check if a unicode character exists in a font and dynamically substitute, without using canvas.

Quick and dirty idea: maybe try rendering it to an offscreen span/div, get its size and compare it to a well known size of what gets substituted for a generic symbol if it doesn't exist, and if the size matches that, replace with something else.

Re: Show HN: Emoji to Scale

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Is japan the only country that has its own map as a unicode symbol? If so, is there a story behind it? I would bet on compatibility with some regional encoding that had it to begin with.

The original set of emoji was created by one Japanese person in a weekend for a Japanese mobile operator. So these images, like the blood types, the astrology signs and the cats and later the rice ball and the pile of poo are images Japanese people would want to use in their communication.

The Wikipedia page of the creator has some links to the origin story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigetaka_Kurita

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likely just a regional thing. Ants where I live tend to be slightly larger than our mosquitos, and they certainly have far more volume.

Ants where I live tend to be far larger than our mosquitos. When you say "far larger", is that twice as big? 10 times bigger? 1000 times bigger? I might have to avoid where you live.

The ladybug one must be way off, where do they have 1cm large ladybugs? That sounds terrifying. I'd say our mosquitos are closer to 1cm, although they're long but thin.

There's more of these which are really weird, like the 12m cactus.

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