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57 pointsPlasmoid33 comments

For anyone that is seeing the square block, if you have a browser that supports emojis it looks like an emoji bridge. It's interesting that even though Chrome won't display it in the text, it does render the emoji in the title bar of the tab.

Mac users can install https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for... Works like a charm!

It shows fine in safari on 10.10 at least.

Looks like a number of emoji will redirect you to the proper Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐘

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐕

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💋

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💩

I'm pretty sure every Unicode character will (unless somebody missed any). There are Unicode character charts on Wikipedia too, and they're fully linkified, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrows_(Unicode_block)

There's a list of all 18,038 single-Unicode-character titles that redirect somewhere here (although most are not emoji): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_Unicod...

Why are emoji's being used in URL's now... ?

For me, it's just a square. On Windows 7 SP1 + Chrome.

This is not a good trend to set.

Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer support emoji on all platforms. Chrome is the only browser not to support emoji.

Yea, just a square on chrome/win7

I'm using Firefox 30 on Linux (Fedora 20) yet I just see a square block.

Firefox 29 on Arch here, seeing square.

Firefox on OS X; I just see a square...

I don't know if it's good or bad. But, it leads me to an interesting thought experiment.

If the trend of using emoji in Western discourse continues to increase in popularity indefinitely, could the English language of 200-500 years in the future officially incorporate ideograms of some sort?

I think it will become more prevalent in Eastern culture before Western -- ie. it allows characters in the native language... instead of only Western (English) characters.

But then again... I don't have a bridge character on my keyboard...

Anyone can make a redirect to anything, generally they don't face much scrutiny because "redirects are cheap" [0]. Though there has been some discussion about deleting those that are just emojis e.g. [1-2]. Here's a category of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Redirect...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_are_cheap

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discus...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discus...

How did you find that?

EDIT: if I wasn't using Chrome I wouldn't have to ask :-(

I don't know how I feel about the Emoji trend.

http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?p...

For correctly rendering a vast number of Unicode glyphs (including the mentioned 'bridge at night'), I highly recommend installing the Symbola font http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/symbola/

Both Firefox and Chromium are able to render the glyphs by merely having a capable font installed in your system.

(At first I thought "oh no XSS! Like the one on TweetDeck!)

Then I saw "emoji" and that reminds me the recent sushi comment on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8066226).

Yes. Now we got .tk we can add unicode character! Emoji...

This is an interesting oddity such as you might expect to see on reddit's /r/mildlyinteresting or til, but I don't feel that this fits well on HN personally. I'm not saying HN is turning into reddit by having this content, just pointing out how I'd classify this content.

This is absolutely not "intellectually gratifying" in my mind. The fact that it can be trivially consumed (as opposed to a long blog post) might in part lead to it having a higher number of upvotes due to being more accessible, but that doesn't mean that it's better than a less accessible item that gets more upvotes relative to people consuming it, but fewer as an absolute.

Edit: It was 1st for about two minutes and then dropped down to 198 instantly (among items from 1-3 days ago and/or with over 20 times fewer points). I'll hazard a guess that the mods agree with me on this and nuked it down.

I've said that dozens of times and got quite tired of repeating, so briefly speaking, it's because it takes only ~5 votes within first 30-60min to make the front page.

The best thing you can do about it is to go to /newest and help to bring good content to the homepage :)

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it as long as it's once in a few days. Was it a regular trend, then it would be worth flagging.

This is an anomaly that your explanation doesn't apply to though.

Notice that it has 50 points and is half an hour old. I count 12 items on the front page currently that have 50 or fewer points and are 1 or more hours old and yet remain there. These items are generally quality content (such as the tinfoil security post -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086834 -- which sits at 37 points / 3 hours).

Your explanation of "5 votes within the first 30 minutes" completely disregards that this has as many votes as many other items on the front page, but in a fraction of the time period.

For me on OSX/chrome, the emoji to properly renders in the address bar but not on HN or wikipedia. Suggestions?

Same on Windows 8.1 + Chrome

This is a problem in Chrome only. It renders fine in Firefox and Safari.

It appears in the favicon in the comments on chrome also

Chrome does its own text rendering and their font doesn't have characters for the emoji code points. There are a number of chrome extensions that add these characters. (Here's one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for...)

You can also use Safari on OS X.

I can sort of understand why a cross-platform browser engine might include its own text rendering engine, but is there any justification for it not making use of the fonts on the local machine to fill in the necessarily large holes in what fonts the browser bundles?

Win7/Chrome doesn't render it.. Outlook 2010 (rss reader) does :)

FWIW, the emoji character works fine in all contexts I've seen it: status bar URL hover, location bar and on HN and the Wikipedia web pages. This with OS X/FF 31.

chrome doesn't support emoji yet.

http://blog.getemoji.com/post/73341182572/its-2014-why-doesn...

Unicode "Bridge at night"?

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