Comment by 🛸 bluesman

Re: "Symbol Or Emoji?"

In: s/Alhena

The bizarre thing is that my test page with the cups would render correctly if I added a letter symbol like the 𝗔 character anywhere in the page. I don't get the rationale.

🛸 bluesman [OP/mod]

12 hours ago

1 Later Comment

🚬 sy · 9 hours ago:

That probably loads STIX2 Math font, which also has that glyph. I thought it was my local font, it is actually among Apple system fonts, too. Looks like a font-lookup logic error somewhere.

Original Post

🌒 s/Alhena

🛸 bluesman: [mod]

Symbol Or Emoji? — The following line should alternate between the biohazard symbol and the biohazard emoji. ☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️☣☣️ What do you see? Thanks to @SavaRocks ascii chess board and some prompting from @sy, I managed to get Alhena to honor the symbol variation selector. If you build from the latest source, you can see what I mean. Other Gemini clients on my system display only the symbol or only the emoji. Amfora starts out with the symbol but switches to the…

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