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A couple of alternatives for Linux users. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IBus#Emoji_input The kitty terminal emulator supports this out of the box (it also works on two other platforms): https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty Ctrl+Shift+U opens a Unicode input panel with fuzzy search by symbol code or name.
GNOME has Ctrl+period.
I went to [lightbulb-emoji].kz and it transformed to http://xn--ds8h.kz
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Supporting Unicode characters comes with a set of complications that you may want to address, as, for instance the infamous HTML-parsing with regex rant shows. As soon as you start trying to address those, the simple problem suddenly grows quite a lot in scope.
Notice that HN already does support unicode: α β γ é ö 本 It actively filters out a small part of it, mostly emojis (which I think that it is a good thing to do).
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I use an email address that ends in .io and the amount of people that still ask me ".io? are you sure that's correct?" never ceases to amaze me.
My domain ends in .me which according to Aliexpress is not real. So instead of me having to manually unsubscribe, they got sent to the huge spam box that is gmail.
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> no one gonna use their emoji email for anything important I disagree. We, as technical HN crowd, know not to do this this. But any non-technical person who sees 'get a next-gen email addresses' being advertised for 9,99/year will expect more. A lot more. Do not underestimate how naive and demanding consumers can be.
And for a long time, no one used email for anything important. Very few new things emerge feature-complete.
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I think you need the .kz, if you don't, I can officially say that I am out of the tech game and need to go grow potatoes.
You need a TLD but IIRC, the second level is not required. So you could have something like ` http://google `, which I think, Google actually had at some point in the past. Cannot however find anything related to this anymore.
It's in French, but it's easy to understand the gist of it
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For other readers: emoji keyboard is ctrl + cmd + space on macOS.
Not always; that's app-specific, not a system-wide setting.
Ironically, you cannot use emojis for the username (e.g. :crab:@:crab: )