It meticulously refrains from rotating emoji. Somehow this feels like failure.
Most emojis seem to be above the first 16 bits. [1] But there are a number of emojis in the first 16 bits, like the "frowning face" emoji at U+2639 -- it rotates just fine -- plus others in the first 16 bits.
(TIL you can't paste emojis into HN comment threads. Probably all for the best.)
I'm gonna make a HN where you can only speak in Emoji!
Sorta unrelated, does anyone remember the social network where you could only write in Emoji? http://emoj.li/
https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-modifiers.html
You might need to split the text over multiple comments. Don’t remember whether or not there is a limit to the length a comment can have. Probably there is.
I can post, for example: ↙️ ↩️ ⌚ ⌛ ⌨ ⏏ ⏩ ⏰ ️⏱ ⏲ ⏳ ️◾
edit: scratch that, they get stripped out.
It got in the way of me explaining the Rebus principle used in Egyptian hieroglyphs a little while ago.
Then again, the topic was phalluses in Unicode (which do display!), so maybe you're right.