Unicode Variation Selector-15 and some of my tears

This breaks my heart:

Did the author mean to present an umbrella ⛱︎ or an umbrella ⛱️ ? We don’t know what their writing tool presented to them during editing. They don’t know that we don’t see what they think we see when we’re reading the thing.

No scratch that. This is the tear jerker:

the Unicode Technical Committee is aware that variation selectors are complicated and maybe weren’t the best strategy. But what’s done is done and can’t be undone

I LOVE IT when software renders some emoji it doesn't understand as multiple separate ones with a bunch of question marks or something.

I’m fortunate that the library I use to generate HTML from my Markdown source documents (Kramdown) has a configurable footnote backlink glyph.

Hey, I was the person who opened that Kramdown feature request! Small world…