points by saagarjha 6 years ago

Hacker News lets some emoji and Unicode through, but I’m not sure how it’s chosen. Here’s some I copied from Wikipedia’s page on emoji: ℹ ⌛🀄🈚

OJFord 6 years ago

Weird, I've never seen any before this thread, I thought they were all stripped. Bug or feature, I wonder?

  • saagarjha 6 years ago

    I’ll ask tomorrow if I can remember and get back to you.

uryga 6 years ago

could be because emoji are in the 'Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs' Unicode block, but the hourglass symbol is in 'Miscellaneous Technical', so it doesn't count as an emoji according to HN's filter