On: Rot8000

[egypturnash]

It meticulously refrains from rotating emoji. Somehow this feels like failure.

[SomeCallMeTim → egypturnash]

ROT-8000 is only touching the first 65536 Unicode characters (UCS-2). Unicode has >1M code points. [0]

Most emojis seem to be above the first 16 bits. [1] But there are a number of emojis in the first 16 bits, like the "frowning face" emoji at U+2639 -- it rotates just fine -- plus others in the first 16 bits.

(TIL you can't paste emojis into HN comment threads. Probably all for the best.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

[1] https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html

[wl → SomeCallMeTim]

> TIL you can't paste emojis into HN comment threads. Probably all for the best.

It got in the way of me explaining the Rebus principle used in Egyptian hieroglyphs a little while ago.

Then again, the topic was phalluses in Unicode (which do display!), so maybe you're right.

[have_faith → SomeCallMeTim]

> TIL you can't paste emojis into HN comment threads. Probably all for the best.

I'm gonna make a HN where you can only speak in Emoji!

Sorta unrelated, does anyone remember the social network where you could only write in Emoji? http://emoj.li/

[tyingq → have_faith]

Are the rules for what it does allow written down somewhere? I know country flags work: 🇩🇪

[codetrotter → tyingq]

If your question isn’t answered, you could post all of them in a comment and see which ones remain unfiltered.

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-modifiers.html

You might need to split the text over multiple comments. Don’t remember whether or not there is a limit to the length a comment can have. Probably there is.

[tyingq → codetrotter]

I may try that. It seems a little arbitrary.

I can post, for example: ↙️ ↩️ ⌚ ⌛ ⌨ ⏏ ⏩ ⏰ ️⏱ ⏲ ⏳ ️◾ 󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[angus-prune → have_faith]

There is a wonderful talk by the founders of emoj.li about how it was all a joke which got out of hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyhGHUEt-k

[ucosty → SomeCallMeTim]

It seems you can type them in natively, though

edit: scratch that, they get stripped out.