Did Hacker News just gain image emoticons?

1 pointSamuel_Michon4 comments

In Mobile Safari on iOS 6, a reply to one of my comments contains a graphical emoticon, where it didn’t a couple of hours a go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5867697

Does anyone else see this? (Please mention browser+version and OS)

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I believe those are emoji emoticons. The reason you see them is because you are on iPhone. I'm on Chrome on Windows 8 and I only see a square 😓.

I usually use Chrome on OS X, where I didn’t see the emoticon. I was reviewing the replies to my comments on my iPhone when I noticed it, and I’m delighted. Another thing to thank the Japanese for.

I see them on chrome/archlinux.

I see a 😓 (which is Unicode, not a graphic).

(Firefox 21.0, Ubuntu Precise 12.04.)

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