Never thought about this, it's brilliant. Windows 11 should install things to a path with an emoji. Seriously, the number of students I see in my office with install problems due to their Chinese usernames says we need more forcing functions like this in our code.
๐ŸŽป Eric Lawrence @ericlaw
20 Oct 2018
The fun bit here, of course, is that putting spaces in default paths was a very explicit design decision. It's a forcing function.
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We really need to have Firefox automated tests run with a profile that has unicode characters in the path name. Would uncover all sorts of bugs I'm sure.
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I believe @davidbaron has a watch emoji (โŒš) in his Bugzilla name for this kind of reason.
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Replying to @nnethercote @EnglishMossop @humphd
It was more the reason that I put musical symbol characters (๐„ž, ๐„ข, and ๐„‚, which are non-BMP) in my email signature. Emoji have certainly helped make western developers care about things not mangling non-ASCII characters, though.

Oct 21, 2018 ยท 5:20 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @nnethercote @EnglishMossop
Fitting that none of those symbols render on my phone. Here's to having more work to do!
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