This is so odd. Even though my OS supports the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish flag emoji, Chrome inserts a black flag & invisible characters instead, but only in some cases!! E.g. in the URL bar it works fine — most of the time (first time I tried it there it also inserted a 🏴 WTF) 🤪
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Replying to @LeaVerou
I *think* that in Chrome, the URL bar is rendered with native UI, not with Chromium. This is different from Firefox, where the UI is written using Gecko so the URL bar is rendered using Gecko. Then there's the question of why it doesn't work with Chromium's text shaping stack.

Jul 17, 2018 · 8:33 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @LeaVerou
Yes, it's a different rendering system.