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> I think it's reasonable to expect the full, standard set of emoji.

What full, standard set? Is there an RFC that sets it out, possibly called Annoyingly Animated Smilies From Japan?

As a matter of fact, yes! http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/

Haha, cheers. This document http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/1.0/full-emoji-list.html seems to indicate that even if the dude had wrapped the Apple set of these damned things, it still wouldn't be definitive, which would make for fantastic bug reports about how we're missing 'ferry' and 'disabled car'. This reliance on pictorial fonts is making me feel very old. Get off my lawn you damned kids with your cleverphones and your wing dings smilies.

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