Microsoft Adopts the Middle Finger

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This is legitimately good news. I hope Chrome starts working with these Emoji soon. As of today, Windows 8.1 with Chrome latest, still doesn't display them on web-pages but strangely DOES display them if you select the emoji, right click, and look in the "Search [Engine] for '😃'" line.

In general, dealing with American's puritanicalism is very tiresome at times. Glad they allowed through a bad hand gesture <insert roll eyes emoji here>.

This has nothing to do with "American's puritanicalism" and is just a matter of there are over 700 emoji and Unicode 7.0, which added the middle finger one, added another 250. It takes time to create 250 emoji. Google and Apple just haven't gotten to this one yet.

If this was a question of "American's puritanicalism" or Google & Apple refusing to add this one to "keep things polite" then it just never would have made it into Unicode 7.0 in the first place as both Apple & Google are full members of the unicode consortium.

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