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Doesn't work in the latest Chrome on Windows 7. What fonts do I have to get to see piles of poo[0] and love hotels[1] properly?

0: http://boingboing.net/2012/02/03/unicodes-pile-of-poo-cha.ht...

1: http://unicodelovehotel.com/

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That second one is oddly broken (FF on Win7). I see the fallback image http://unicodelovehotel.com/unicodelovehotel.jpg but when I select it, I get a bed with a heart over it. 🏩 I believe that's Verdana in my browser.

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Unicodelovehotel.com was on hacker news a while back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3837359

Check out the source to see all the fallbacks I implemented to make at least something show up in most browsers/platforms.

My http://unicodelovehotel.com site has really been coming in handy lately.

It looks like [1] specifies 'Lucida Grande' in the CSS.

Symbola seems to have a number of emoji people are using.

http://www.fontineed.com/font/35288_symbola

http://www.4shared.com/file/xh0VBvUg/Symbola.html

I installed symbola months ago but nothing uses it. Do I have to edit the registry entries related to font fallbacks? What have I failed to do?

It's probably been more than five years since I've installed a font under Windows, so I'll just hope MSFT's own tutorial answers your question:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/truetypeinstall.mspx

The old one didn't have these symbols. When I installed it on debian linux (called: ttf-ancient-fonts - but you have to use the testing repository) it was used immediately.

Well I remember testing it on love hotel, which I specifically checked was in symbola if I set the font manually. But it wouldn't render if it was embedded in normal text.

The main site for symbola is here: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/

That site seemed to be down when I posted.

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