Unicode Variation Selector-15 and some of my tears

[OP] abnercoimbre | a day ago

This breaks my heart:

Did the author mean to present an umbrella ⛱︎ or an umbrella ⛱️ ? We don’t know what their writing tool presented to them during editing. They don’t know that we don’t see what they think we see when we’re reading the thing.

No scratch that. This is the tear jerker:

the Unicode Technical Committee is aware that variation selectors are complicated and maybe weren’t the best strategy. But what’s done is done and can’t be undone

I LOVE IT when software renders some emoji it doesn't understand as multiple separate ones with a bunch of question marks or something.

bdesham | 21 hours ago

I’m fortunate that the library I use to generate HTML from my Markdown source documents (Kramdown) has a configurable footnote backlink glyph.

Hey, I was the person who opened that Kramdown feature request! Small world…

benjaminwil | 6 hours ago

Small world! Thanks for getting that ball rolling. 🙂

bjeanes | 13 hours ago

I would hope the the +U+FE0E and +U+FE0F columns do render the same way for everyone.

Alas, no. For me on iOS 26.5.2 in Safari, I see the first 8 rows with text but for the remaining rows all three columns show the same representation: emoji

benjaminwil | 6 hours ago

😭 Why. Pretty disappointing.

nortti | 3 hours ago

First 7 rows for me with Firefox 153.0 and the LineageOS stock browser on LineageOS 22.2 (Android 15)