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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Mathematics & Science → Emoji oddities (was “Fancy a challenge? Feel young again?”)
I saw this:
https://home.unicode.org/emoji-are-not- … -are-made/
Near the end of the document is the follwing.
> Until the sending and receiving of images is
standardized in some manner so you can send any image in the world alongside
your text messages not just code points … well, Unicode is here for the world’s
emoji character needs.
What happened, I wrote out a basic idea and when I posted, it vanished!
William
Something went wrong.
It might be something to do with the two characters at the end of the quoted sentence.
I managed to go back, delete them and fortunately the post went through.
Of the two characters, one was definitely an emoji and the other gave a tofu box here.
Perhaps this forum software rejects any character beyond plane 0 and scrubs anything following?
William
Something went wrong.
It might be something to do with the two characters at the end of the quoted sentence.
Let’s see what happens if I paste those two characters here.
Curiouser and curiouser, as (Lewis Carroll’s) Alice famously remarked. It looked fine in preview but got truncated when posted.
Right.
So I'll try to use FontCreator to get the code points.
William
U+1FAC2
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FA70.pdf
PEOPLE HUGGING
and
U+1F496
https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf
SPARKLING HEART
in that order.
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https://www.unicode.org/charts/
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William
So I'll try to use FontCreator to get the code points.
Your favourite search engine should yield the relevant information quite readily.
William wrote:So I'll try to use FontCreator to get the code points.
Your favourite search engine should yield the relevant information quite readily.
Alternatively, go here and paste the emoji into the search bar:
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