A very simple question: Is '' aka (U+F8FF) and 'U+261A' emojis?
Yes or No?
Yes or No?
In passing: Many HN readers on non-Apple platforms probably don't see the glyph you intended in this comment. The Apple logo does not exist as a character in the Unicode standard. U+F8FF is a Private Use Area codepoint, which has no standardised, interoperable meaning.
Yes, Apple uses this codepoint for the logo in their fonts, but that's purely a private matter, largely restricted to their platforms. (I wouldn't be surprised if non-Apple fonts that include it are actually violating a trademark, or something like that.)
That is the whole point of my comments. They cannot ever see it unless they are running on an Apple platform. Unless they wanted to see an empty box, the symbol is meaningless to non-Apple users. That is why I asked 'Can you see it?'
Even posting the 'U+261A' glyph here on HN renders nothing and a box on other sites and that is defined in the standard; but they still cannot see it.
So that is a definite 'No' then for '' aka (U+F8FF) and the same for 'U+261A'? OK.
It has been indirectly admitted. Case closed.
Often times, yes.