HN renders emojis in color?! I’m reading that on an iPad and see a red heart. That’s a first
this is the first emoji I see on HN at all, they’re filtered out in comments.
I don't remember ever seeing one before either. Will the floodgates now open?
A directory of people who love RSS
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Re: A directory of people who love RSS
#12HN renders emojis in color?! I’m reading that on an iPad and see a red heart. That’s a first
I only have a fairly basic understanding of encodings, but is this one by any chance in one of the smaller “standard” character sets and not in the huge Unicode “emoji” set?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's specific to your os it renders in os emoji colors iirc.
I’ve always seen emoji being stripped on HN, so it’s very surprising to see colors for once
They've always been stripped for me as well. This "emoji" actually appears black for me however.
I think the reason its not stripped is because it's actually "U+2665 : BLACK HEART SUIT {valentine}" which predates the emojis. Lots of fonts and OSes will render these older unicode symbols as emojis
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's specific to your os it renders in os emoji colors iirc.
I’ve always seen emoji being stripped on HN, so it’s very surprising to see colors for once
Well, in theory, with proper UTF-8 support you don't need to filter out anything.
Unsupported unicode code points are just rendered using a place holder.
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#15HN renders emojis in color?! I’m reading that on an iPad and see a red heart. That’s a first
this is the first emoji I see on HN at all, they’re filtered out in comments.
It's because it's not actually an emoji (though your OS/font might decide to render it like one)
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2665
It's part of the card suite icons
♠♡♢♣♤♥♦♧
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#16Nowadays I see these sites as nothing else but mining grounds for personal profiling by big tech. Nothing can be a cutesy show-off anymore.
Re: A directory of people who love RSS
#17HN renders emojis in color?! I’m reading that on an iPad and see a red heart. That’s a first
I only have a fairly basic understanding of encodings, but is this one by any chance in one of the smaller “standard” character sets and not in the huge Unicode “emoji” set?
yes, exactly:
♠♡♢♣♤♥♦♧
Re: A directory of people who love RSS
#18HN renders emojis in color?! I’m reading that on an iPad and see a red heart. That’s a first
I only have a fairly basic understanding of encodings, but is this one by any chance in one of the smaller “standard” character sets and not in the huge Unicode “emoji” set?
Yep, that seems to be the case!
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#19Please add me
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only have a fairly basic understanding of encodings, but is this one by any chance in one of the smaller “standard” character sets and not in the huge Unicode “emoji” set?
yes, exactly: ♠♡♢♣♤♥♦♧
Funny, I see the 1st, 4th, 6th and 7th in color. The outlined ones look like standard font characters