All righty, if I’ve done everything right, we should now be able to use “Astral” Unicode characters, including emoji, in most places where we might possibly want to. ? I had to change each database table and column one-at-a-time, so I didn’t do everything, but Emoji should be supported in post titles and fields, comments, private messages, and maybe a few other places, too.
As always, report any weirdness to the #server channel on Slack.
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I get little boxes for 01f3fc and 01f600, in Firefox 41.0.2 on Windows, but the rest appear. Chrome 45.0.2454.84 on my Android phone doesn’t display those two at all.
Alas, I was aware that emoji were still inconsistently supported on non-Apple platforms, but I didn’t know the exact extent of it. Here’s a rundown. That page is a little out of date; Chrome now supports some emoji on OS X, for example.
At any rate, the extended Unicode support helps with things beyond emoji; Greek letters, mathematical symbols, etc., etc.
Okay never mind I was looking at a page that I THOUGHT implied Greek letters were trans-BMP, even though I didn’t believe that previously, but it turns out I was misreading it and Greek letters were always possible, but math symbols still apply ITS JUST BETTER OKAY??
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