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:burrito: and :taco: are not emojis as such though, they are more alike good old "smileys" that turns characters into images. Supporting emojis would be to support the UTS#51 https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/ natively.

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that's what i meant, but i was using the shortcode in my message here.

"add a glyph to the emoji keyboard" is more precise.

I'm not sure HN will even allow emojis:

Burrito: Taco:

edit No, it stripped those :'(.

wait they remove emojis from comments?

Just as they remove plenty of other Unicode characters here.

Not every emoji ⌛

I'm guessing that that's b/c that's one of those that is inside the BMP?

It removes almost all of the ones inside and almost all of the ones outside.

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