Panic introduces the world's first emoji domain
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Corresponding blog post here: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...
Yep, iPhoneOS 2.2 (November 2008).
Although it's important to note it uses Softbank emoji.
edit: emoji is not unicode standard and has no linux support apparently. oh well.
It doesn't render in the URL bar, of course, but that's Firefox's IDN whitelist at work.
The Apple Emoji font uses a non-standard extension (png images in an 'sbix' table), so it can't be used outside of Lion / iOS at the moment.
Haven't got it working in firefox yet, but can see in Character Selector.
Edit: Nevermind, the rules used to create the chart are designed to disallow symbols. It gives an explanation of the rule but not the reason it was set.
These rules identify characters commonly used in mnemonics and often
informally described as "language characters". In general, only code
points assigned to this category are suitable for use in IDN.(FF6 on XP)
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