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[art] Re: use of Emojis in Internet Standards

Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> Tue, 10 March 2026 15:15 UTC

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 6:41 AM Robert Viragh <rviragh@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Our implementers are having trouble matching them.
>
> Here are our questions:
> 1. Are there a set of emojis that are considered widely compatible?
>

Yes, but they are pinned to versions published each year in the summer
time. There are always new ones these days, because new emoji characters
are one of the only things that drives users to upgrade their OS. :)

Here's the latest, but you can use an older one for more interoperability:
https://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-test.txt



> 2. Do you think it is appropriate to include it as normative in an
> Internet standard?
>

Yes, it's fine. RFC 9839 has this one, for example:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9839/

1F5A4 # 🖤 E3.0 black heart


> 3. How should emojis be specified in an Internet standard?
>

Reference a Unicode document like the one linked above.

thanks,
Rob

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