Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac

Here's hoping for a monospace emoji font variant, so we can use them in our code. That 'pile of shit' tag might come in handy.

Panic was first with an emoji domain:<p><a href="http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-domain/" rel="nofollow">http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...</a><p><a href="http://💩.la" rel="nofollow">http://💩.la</a>

Don't forget that most of these characters fall outside the Unicode BMP. Testing your APIs with these is a great way to see if any part of them (database, serialization, etc) can't handle these codepoints.

Unless the Emoji-American community steps out of the shadows and organizes into effective advocacy groups, many of these gaps in functionality will never be closed.

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?<p>0: <a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/02/03/unicodes-pile-of-poo-cha.html" rel="nofollow">http://boingboing.net/2012/02/03/unicodes-pile-of-poo-cha.ht...</a><p>1: <a href="http://unicodelovehotel.com/" rel="nofollow">http://unicodelovehotel.com/</a>

<a href="https://gist.github.com/3739562" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/3739562</a><p>Russ Cox and Dennis Ritchie remind us (from a decade or two ago) that just because you <i>can</i>, doesn't mean you <i>should</i>

If you're having trouble seeing the Emoji, they work great on Windows 8 and IE 10

Wikipedia has had article URLs with emojis for quite some time now:<p>* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🍔" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🍔</a> -&#62; Hamburger<p>* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💩" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/💩</a> -&#62; Feces<p>* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/👀" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/👀</a> -&#62; Human eye<p>* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🏧" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🏧</a> -&#62; Automated teller machine

OSX Snow Leopard: Fail. Junk display in Safari &#38; Chrome, Hex boxen on Firefox. Actually works in the latest version of Camino, although the story seems to have come out not quite right: Santa, Rocket, People, Fish, Pizza, Building, Movie camera, Earmuffs, Watermelon, Bike, Chicken, (Hide-and-seek) Seeker.<p>A "If you don't see the emoji, then download these fonts" right up-front would have been immensely helpful.

Perhaps I am missing something, but how does a picture of Santa Claus, Rocket, 2 People, Fish, Pizza and other seemingly out of place things translate into "Let's go meet at Chipotle and..."<p>I assume that this is an error. I couldn't get it to work in Firefox on OSX 10.7 so I used Safari.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/Tpnyc.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/Tpnyc.png</a>

Funny. I ran into an issue a few weeks ago where coworkers couldn't see me when I was online. Turns out my computer name (🐒💨) caused an error in Adium (which most coworkers use for chat).<p>Who knows what other weird issues this was causing... so I reverted back to a proper ASCII computer name.

I was actually playing with using Unicode emoji for a webpage this week. Being able to use characters as icons would be fantastically easy for a lot of use cases!<p>Unfortunately, as others have noted, it doesn't work on many platforms: Safari works on 10.7+, Firefox doesn't seem to support it at all yet [1], and I don't follow Chromium that much any more but it seems like it's not there yet, either [2].<p>[1]: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715798" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715798</a> [2]: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435</a>

Has anybody used Emoji in Dropbox folder names?

if you haven't tried using 💰 as the name of a branch in git well then you haven't lived.

Just renamed my wireless networks with a cityscape and bar theme: <a href="https://img.skitch.com/20120921-8r3d1uchbsphatfjf9iuc9wx2c.png" rel="nofollow">https://img.skitch.com/20120921-8r3d1uchbsphatfjf9iuc9wx2c.p...</a>

This has got to be one of the most beautiful/ugly things I have ever seen!

It's a shame on OSX/iOS. When I've used these characters and viewed on Safari it turns them into raster icons ... exactly what I don't want. Windows and Linux are fine.<p>Anyone know how to disable this "feature?"

Annoyingly Emoji is not rendered in Google Chrome on OSX Lion (my main browser), I just get blank spaces, it's the same in Firefox. It seems Emoji only works in Safari on Lion.

see what happens when the zoo takes over <a href="https://twitter.com/1dotai/status/248950126717050880" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/1dotai/status/248950126717050880</a>

This was a really entertaining post. Well done! 👍

My work computer (Mac) is named<p>&#62; (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻<p>With the table replaced by my name upside down. Windows machines don't even bother to show it.

Is there any way to make Emoji part of a custom bash prompt in Terminal? That would be rad.

Haha, well done. Bravo. 👏

That article made me laugh pretty freakin' hard.

This is amazing.

I guess he read the reddit post 2 days ago.

My new iPhone is now a piece of poo :-D