Unicode Love Hotel

http://unicodelovehotel.com

by brendannee • 14 years ago

51 30 14 years ago

unicodelovehotel.com

jjacobson2• 14 years ago

If my state supported UTF-32, I'd name my next kid this.

Zr40• 14 years ago

Any Unicode encoding (such as the more common UTF-8) will do just fine.

TobbenTM• 14 years ago

Poor child, think of all the problems he will encounter once he discovers the internet!

steve-howard• 14 years ago

It's all well and good until the poor kid's teacher thinks it's Windows-1252 and the whole class laughs at him.

brendannee6• 14 years ago

It looks different on OS X between Safari and Chrome - Safari uses the built in Lucida Grande font to render a full color unicode love hotel, chrome tries to use the black and white symbola font.

You actually see a fallback image with the transparent character on top in all other browsers, since there isn't support for unicode characters this high (U+1F3E9). If you highlight and right click on the love hotel character on OS X you'll see "Search google for '🏩'" with the full color love hotel character.

mrsteveman12• 14 years ago

I believe it's actually in the special Apple Color Emoji font http://i.imgur.com/sNNAZ.png

farnsworth• 14 years ago

What program is that?

mrweasel• 14 years ago

Opera just goes all in and renders both the full color version and the black and white.

http://imgur.com/WiiNJ

brendannee6• 14 years ago

Thanks - I didn't test Opera, I updated it to show only the color (actual) character in opera and not show the fallback image

wazoox• 14 years ago

Safari only displays a black square on my Mac. Overall, Firefox gives the best looking result.

biftek• 14 years ago

🏩

ortatherox• 14 years ago

Duck duck go does a great job when you search for the unicode love hotel! http://cl.ly/3a07430F2i1M1Z1H3u0V

brendannee6• 14 years ago

Duck duck go beats google in this case: https://img.skitch.com/20120413-gs9cnmdrcnfgcx3idct62xp35y.j...

dmethvin• 14 years ago

I think it's just a matter of time before some legitimate cardiology hospital accidentally adopts this as their logo.

whamill2• 14 years ago

http://www.unicodesnowmanforyou.com

brendannee6• 14 years ago

That was my inspiration for this site.

jbverschoor• 14 years ago

Lol 🏩

kijin• 14 years ago

A domain dedicated to one Unicode code point!

I guess it's only a matter of time before "pile of poo" (U+1F4A9) gets its own domain, too.

mietek• 14 years ago

Yeah... About that... http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...

brendannee6• 14 years ago

Looks like you can get <unicode>.tk domain names, anyone want 🏩.tk? https://img.skitch.com/20120413-b67rwn29c4aydc73jyt3jfwsnk.j...

jerf• 14 years ago

Long predated by "Unicode Snowman for You": http://xn--n3h.net/

Or http://☃.net if you prefer.

Interestingly, I observe my font is rendering the snowflakes around the snowman as pentagons. Some font designer needs to study some more science.

whamill2• 14 years ago

The scourge of the off-by-one error strikes again.

jes5199• 14 years ago

also http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/ , which is easier to type

brendannee6• 14 years ago

You can remap capslock to <lovehotel> for easy access, if you end up typing it a lot.

Dylan168072• 14 years ago

So what does it take to make my windows browser show the actual character and not the fallback?

jjacobson2• 14 years ago

Try Safari or Opera

Dylan168072• 14 years ago

I'm already on Opera. What fonts do I need?

theon144• 14 years ago

Honestly, who decides what characters should be included?

philodespotos• 14 years ago

The Unicode Consortium manages the process of defining the unicode standard. Various committees are formed, composed of representatives from whatever other standards bodies are interested and from companies with a stake in the standard.

I learned the answer after reading a great talk (in blog post form) about the ever-growing unicode character set: http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/love-hotels-and-unicode/

Unicode Love Hotel

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