{"id":6957,"date":"2011-10-15T17:10:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2011-12-19T08:45:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T13:45:10","slug":"not-just-firefoxs-pile-of-poo-easter-egg-%f0%9f%92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/15\/not-just-firefoxs-pile-of-poo-easter-egg-%f0%9f%92\/","title":{"rendered":"(Not Just) Firefox’s “Pile of Poo” Easter Egg: \u00f0\u0178\u2019\u00a9"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a reason best known<\/a> to the Unicode<\/a> consortium, there is now the symbol U+1F4A9<\/a> “Pile of Poo”: \u00f0\u0178\u2019\u00a9. If you happen to create a web page with this delightful character in the title, Firefox does something special:<\/p>\n

\"\"Yep, that’s a smiley face poo, a bit like Mr Hankey. Oh dear.<\/p>\n

Actually, it seems it might be an OS X Emoji thing, because Safari renders it in the title like that, and in the text as (enlarged to show texture<\/del>):<\/p>\n

\"\"iOS has it covered too:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Blackberry’s browser just shows a small black square. Android, rather sensibly, shows an empty square. It must be an Apple thing.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thanks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d go to tchrist<\/a>‘s comment in unicode – Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?<\/a> for alerting me to this character, and letting us know about the Symbola<\/a> font that supports it. Yeah, cheers Tom …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a reason best known to the Unicode consortium, there is now the symbol U+1F4A9 “Pile of Poo”: \u00f0\u0178\u2019\u00a9. If you happen to create a web page with this delightful character in the title, Firefox does something special: Yep, that’s a smiley face poo, a bit like Mr Hankey. Oh dear. Actually, it seems it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1386,1130,2406,2405,1374,327,1923],"class_list":["post-6957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-apple","tag-ascii","tag-easteregg","tag-emoji","tag-font","tag-poo","tag-why"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1Od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6957"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7088,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6957\/revisions\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}