Garth Wallace <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:07 AM, Christoph Päper > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just learned that recent Samsung phones already contain emoji >> representations for many of these symbols. >> >> <https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/769125703866585088> > > Samsung's emoji support is idiosyncratic, to say the least.
That may be so, but it is an example of a major vendor extending emoji rendering beyond code points which have Emoji=Yes. > It's especially baffling because the "emoji" versions are still black and > white, just with a gradient applied to make them look shiny. It’s not perfect, for sure, but they probably work better with other emojis this way. > WHITE CIRCLE WITH TWO DOTS is emoji on Samsung…why? Electric socket or Go piece? > The chess symbols get turned into emoji, breaking figurine notation. That’s why there are (or shall be) VS15/16 and higher-level controls like the ones proposed for CSS <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/352>.
