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And here it is:

(Now we see how many people get the joke.)

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Wow. Now even I don't get the joke.

When I posted, the post included this character:

U+262D

https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/262d/index.htm

Unicode Character 'HAMMER AND SICKLE' (U+262D)

Yep, it gets eaten by HN. It's in the BMP, dammit! It should be safe!

HN intentionally removes “emoji-type” characters (I don’t know what the exact criteria are, it’s definitely more complicated than which plane the character is on) from posts. The only time I’ve seen this cause issues is when trying to discuss Unicode itself; presumably the moderators decided this is an acceptable tradeoff.

Possibly the entire "Miscellaneous Symbols" block?

Automatically silently stripping characters from posts seems like a bad idea. If we want to forbid characters from posts, wouldn't it be way safer to prevent the post and tell the user to remove them?

There's no obvious criteria. 𓂺

Could you not have picked a different emoji (also why is that a a character?)

> (also why is that a a character?)

It's in Unicode because it's a hieroglyph. Now why is it a hieroglyph I think you would need to ask ancient Egyptians.

It's invisible, it's a ghost character!

I see it fine. Enable showdead in your account preferences.

Then who was phone?

"A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism." The Communist Manifesto

Is there a symbol for fascism?

There are swastikas facing both directions as religious symbols, but not angled Hakenkreuz like the Nazis tended to use. There also isn't a fasces or anything like that, although I feel like that's a less widely recognized symbol (and of course it is used in non-fascist contexts as well).

Probably the most interesting political symbol in Unicode is the Emblem of Iran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Iran

It's referred to officially as "FARSI SYMBOL", which apparently was a euphemism chosen because during ISO standardization of Unicode the original name "SYMBOL OF IRAN" was deemed unacceptable. As a logo, it wouldn't make it into the standard today, but nobody knows how it originally got in there:

http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/2005/01/29/36320...

The Celtic cross is also there, tho tipically represented as asymmetrical, while the one used in fascist context is symmetrical.

W: "The Italian term fascismo is derived from fascio meaning "a bundle of sticks", ultimately from the Latin word fasces.

The symbolism of the fasces suggested strength through unity: a single rod is easily broken, while the bundle is difficult to break."

So just look for a farming-related item with 2 or more stick-like objects bound together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

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