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Unicode 6.1 released complete with emoji characters and a pile of poo

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Emoji code points (including the pile of poo) have actually been in Unicode since 6.0, but now they've added colored "emoji style" variants for the characters. Previously the standard only defined black and white "text style" glyphs.

Panic have already bought a poop domain name:

http://💩.la/

read about it here:

http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...

Just to add something useful to this (pile of poo)

A very handy firefox extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/character-ide...

Highlight the characters you are confused about and right click and get the code points/description for them.

In addition, if you want to know which font a glyph is coming from, this extension adds "Show Fonts in Selection" to the context menu, in addition to letting you list every font used on the page and where they come from:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fontinfo/

Pile of Poo was actually included in Unicode 6.0

Does Lion support this? (please say Yes)

Doesn't render in Chrome (likely because they're in a seperate font set), but OSX does include it.

And for some reason, it's smiling. https://skitch.com/constantinexvi/g6pbb/untitled

Translation: "That's a pile of poo. And I mean that in the nicest possible way."

Depends on your browser, http://pile-of-poo.inunico.de/ works for me in Safari but not Chrome.

Yes, you can enter the Emoji through the "Special Character…" item in the Edit menu. Lion even speaks Emoji:

say -v Alex '💩'

I just tried this, sending from Verbs (iOS 5 supports emoji since forever), and yes, I can see the 😘❤😊🍸💚💤❕💙😰😥😭🏠❔💗👿👽💩🎵💦🐱🐶🐭🐹🐰🐺🐗🐮🐷🐻🐨🐯🐸🐵🐒🐴🐎🐫🐑🐘 with no problem whatsoever :-)

That has actually made my day!

The font Symbola already has the PILE OF POO glyph, in addition to a number of glyphs for ancient scripts.

http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

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