Why are Lemmy posts and replies (almost?) emoji free? - I like the small emotion symbols, they add a softer human feel to things :]

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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        10 days ago

        They’re in the unicode table thing. "Character Map"utility in Windows should have them. There’s also online things to just turn regular text into fancy text.

        The O, however, is the hurricane/swirl emoji. 🌀

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
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        10 days ago

        They are regional indicators, groups (usually pairs) form the flags, which are in fact multiple characters but behave like a single glyph in a text editor . Use the Irregular Expressions keyboard.

        For people using Lemmy clients that only show usernames, @[email protected]’s display name is “🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮”. Without spaces nor zero-width non-joiners, the name becomes “🇰🌀🇱🇦🇳🇦🇰🇮” (LAos, NAmibia, KIribati) - you can copy the text into an editor, delete the spaces yourself and see the flags appear.