The Power and Responsibility of Unicode Adoption

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Argues that adopting Unicode is practical not theoretical: use UTF-8 by default, test cross‑vendor renderings, and expect surprising mismatches (Android blobs, Windows fixes, vendor skin‑tone/gender combos). Recommends concrete tools and patterns: serve emoji with fallback images with alt and aria‑label for accessibility, use twemoji.js or the Python package pip install emojificate to transliterate and fall back, and follow the RFC for emoji in URLs to avoid mojibake and wrong semantics.

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1. 0:00Conference introduction
2. 1:24What is Unicode
3. 2:49Birth of emoji in Unicode
4. 4:15Apple and emoji popularity
5. 5:37Emoji combinations and modifiers
6. 7:27Emoji tax and limits
7. 8:12Emoji in Python
8. 9:14Android emoji mistakes
9. 10:40Emoji inconsistencies
10. 11:46Cultural emoji differences
11. 12:07Submit new emoji
12. 13:34Emoji approval rejection
13. 13:54Replacement character and mojibake
14. 14:35Emoji in URLs
15. 15:40Browser tab emoji differences
16. 16:44Inputting emoji
17. 17:48Hardware emoji keyboards
18. 18:09Web emoji and search
19. 18:54Short codes and vendor emoji
20. 19:57Emoticons vs emoji
21. 20:39Auto-correct emoji pitfalls
22. 21:21Slack emoji and fallbacks
23. 21:41Why emoji fallbacks matter
24. 22:47Twemoji.js and WordPress support
25. 23:30Accessible emoji
26. 24:57Emojificate for Django
27. 25:41Enable UTF-8 by default
28. 26:01Future of emoji
29. 27:31Unicode 10 gender-neutral emoji
30. 28:36Platform emoji fixes
31. 30:42Android and Apple emoji improvements
32. 31:50Android emoji library
33. 32:32Windows 10 emoji redesign
34. 33:14EmojiOne licensing
35. 33:56Custom emoji with CSS
36. 34:40Unicode exclusion factors
37. 35:02Emoji learning resources
38. 35:25Summary and emoji power

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