Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com)

AmiMoJo writes: Food company Nestle has started a petition to get a KitKat emoji into the Unicode standard. They aren't alone, Taco Bell wants a taco emoji added, and Durex suggested adding a condom. While the latter two are at least generic, KitKat is a trademark of Nestle and the "break" image a key part of their marketing. Next year Unicode will include a faceplam emoji (U+1F926) for occasions such as this.

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Re:U+1F36B Chocolate Bar

[KGIII]

I am not logged in but, in a recent thread, I went to Google and poked around. You can include emoji in URLs now! It is awesome. Well, useless but neat. I found one that had a hot dog in it.

Go to:
http://graphemica.com/search?q...

Note the bottom-most symbol (a pear). Note the URL. It's got the pear in it! No, no, I don't have anything salient to say but I had not been keeping up on such developments and was kind of surprised to see it and I amused myself with it for far longer than is probably healthy. But, I had fun.

(Screw it, I logged in. Now to unpack the rest of my stuff.)