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usonian

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2. All unicode emoji show up on devices going some years back.
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 03:14 PM
Thursday

Titles even show them.

But some math characters don't render (as of last time I tried) and an arrow ( combination of - and > ) will make text disappear, as it's an HTML "comment that you can't see)

The one that gets to me is double quote plus )
It makes a smiley, but is very often used.

If you type it, you get a smiley: &quot
The code you need to type (or leave a space between the quote and paren, which causes line breaks at times) is



That's a screensnap, because when you type it and preview, IT GOES AWAY.

Don't you love computers? (web sites, actually)

I get inconsistent emoji keyboards between devices, so I just use a free app on each device to search and copy them so I can paste into these text boxes.

HTH

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