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Originally Posted by jhowell
I have done some tests with using emoji Unicode characters on Kindle and results are very mixed. I find they don’t work properly in E-ink Kindles, Kindle for PC, or Kindle for Android.
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Well, as of today (Unicode 15.0), there's 1874 "emoji" characters:
Were you testing the more basic ones, or the much newer characters?
And I suspect stuff like flags, skin tones, or multi-character combinations would be disastrous too...
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Don't Kindles use the Code2000 font as fallback?
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Wikipedia:
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As the font ceased updating in 2008, it does not include the emoji, added to Unicode in version 6.0, that make up the best-known and most commonly used characters in the set. This font covers a few characters in the Unicode Plane Two Supplementary Ideographic Plane. It also covers a few tags in Unicode Plane Fourteen Supplementary Special-purpose Plane.
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Woof...
As always, I just embed the trusty font: Symbola. It's just a giant font of all the public domain black-and-white characters submitted into the Unicode specs. If there's a rare character I need, it probably exists in there.
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If you want a site to test all the basic Symbol/Wingding/Webdings characters, Toxaris had this page on his website for many years:
That page was done at
my request way back in 2016 when I was pushing for that proper character substitution in EPUBTools + Calibre... so stuff like 🚲 BICYCLE would properly be inserted into ebooks!
(Back then, even Firefox/Chrome were pretty horrible with many of those "emoji".)