7 Responses:

1. J. Peterson says:

   6 years ago at 11:55 am

   Like Colbert's story of responding to sad news with the because he thought it was somebody crying.

   Somewhere there's a market to fix texting keyboards for the bifocals crowd.

   • J. Peterson says:

     6 years ago at 11:57 am

     (...aaaand your comments field strips out emojis?!)

     • jwz says:

       6 years ago at 12:00 pm

       Everything is terrible. If they are more than 2 bytes you can type them out in &#x form.

       • Nick Lamb says:

         6 years ago at 2:24 pm

         s/more than 2 bytes/beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane/

         Some BMP code points need three bytes in UTF8, � U+FFFD is three bytes for example, but those fit fine into MySQL's crazy "Unicode, but not all of it" character set they've insanely labelled "utf8". I look forward to some day discovering small print in their documentation informing me that "integer" is defined only to include even numbers.

         • Another Dave says:

           6 years ago at 4:37 am

           We could count to 131072 with an unsigned EVINT, with only a slight loss in precision!

2. narf says:

   6 years ago at 7:38 pm

   So, this should just work here, right? U+A66E &U+A66E &U+A66Ex <a href="https://www.inoreader.com/article/3a9c6e7f7bad4ef9-unicode-character-multiocular-o-ua66e"previously

   • narf says:

     6 years ago at 7:40 pm

     herp derp. big fail on even getting the link correct (my kingdom for a space!)