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Re:Show HN: Unicode glitch art iOS app by sheetjs on Thursday June 26, 2014 @03:07AM (#7948449)
On a side note, many javascript libraries and browsers don't handle astral characters in utf-8 encoded text (such as sushi 🍣).

http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode

Re:Show HN: Unicode glitch art iOS app by lloeki on Thursday June 26, 2014 @07:02AM (#7948978)
> astral characters

I was looking for the relationship between sushi and astral sign characters when I realised reading your link that, while I knew unicode was split in planes, I didn't know about most of them being astral, which deeply satisfied the roleplaying nerd in me.