For the love of unicode...

25 May 2007

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(09:58:09 AM) Neil: brr! ☃
(09:58:52 AM) Johann: Think you're smart, eh? ;-)
(09:59:10 AM) Johann: Well, over here it's bloody ☼

4 old-style comments

  1. wjv — May 25, 2007 at 02:08 PM.

    Still ☼, and likely to have some ☈ ☁☂ this afternoon.

    I was thinking earlier, after our little "chat", that if proper Unicode support had been universally on the scene a little earlier, there would not be this need for multiple sets of incompatible embedded-graphics emoticons in IM clients, forum software, &c. ☺

    ☮,
    Johann

    (who still thinks that the "hexagram for great preponderance" is the best-named Unicode glyph.)

  2. Dominic White — May 28, 2007 at 02:20 PM.

    Oh, right, I finally get it. While viewing this on Opera on my phone, the unicode isn't displayed and I just thought you were weird.

  3. Neil Blakey-Milner — May 28, 2007 at 03:11 PM.

    Well, you know I'm weird! Actually, part of the reason I posted it was to see what the aggregators did. Afrigator got it right, Amatomu didn't. (Of course, planet, and pyaggregator, got it right too.)

  4. wjv — May 29, 2007 at 01:40 PM.

    What Neil said. We are teh weird.
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