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Why are emoji's being used in URL's now... ?

For me, it's just a square. On Windows 7 SP1 + Chrome.

This is not a good trend to set.

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Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer support emoji on all platforms. Chrome is the only browser not to support emoji.

Yea, just a square on chrome/win7

I'm using Firefox 30 on Linux (Fedora 20) yet I just see a square block.

Firefox 29 on Arch here, seeing square.

Firefox on OS X; I just see a square...

I don't know if it's good or bad. But, it leads me to an interesting thought experiment.

If the trend of using emoji in Western discourse continues to increase in popularity indefinitely, could the English language of 200-500 years in the future officially incorporate ideograms of some sort?

I think it will become more prevalent in Eastern culture before Western -- ie. it allows characters in the native language... instead of only Western (English) characters.

But then again... I don't have a bridge character on my keyboard...

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