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Incidentally, that page doesn't mention Unicode emoji (😊), which are probably more likely to get into your average database now that OS X supports them and such.


Speaking of unicode emoji ... OpenFire the open source Jabber server will drop your connection if you send it a πŸ’© ...


Seems like either my browser or HN doesn't support such characters since I'm seeing a box with "01F 489" in it.


It's your browser; the characters are standard but not widely supported outside of Apple platforms yet.

Edit: you can try Symbola at http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ (and yes, I keep editing this post :p)


Any idea if these are the characters GoSMS uses as "emoji"? i.e. is it a defacto standard?


The emoji unicode range was created to standardize the various characters used on Japanese mobiles. Hence why it contains e.g. the Love Hotel icon.


Dunno; I only know emoji encoding has historically been a crapfest.


after installing the "symbola" font i can see the πŸ’© , thanks


On debian install ttf-ancient-fonts version 2.56-1 or later (currently in testing - the one in stable does not include the symbol).

I installed it and now I see it as well.


I'm not quite sure why that symbol would be in an ancient font.


It's a repackaging of http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ which is titled "Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts" so I guess they used that name.




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