Topic: Tag Alias: ✡️ -> ✡

Aliasing ✡️ → ✡
Link to alias

Reason:

It's the same character.

Similar alias suggestions:

• ♂️ -> ♂
• ♀️ -> ♀

… it looks the same to me

Yea, this is what I see. Care to explain the differences?

(Edit) chipping in from an iPhone, if that helps.

I guess it depends on the system and/or font used. For me, I see a clear difference in the topic's larger bold header (the first ✡️ has a purple background, ✡ doesn't). But in the post body, the Aliasing lines show them both the same, without a colored background (same for the male and female symbols). However, if I hover over the linked symbols, my browser's status bar shows all the symbols with and without bg colors as appropriate (✡️, ♂️, and ♀️ have colored backgrounds on the displayed link, ✡, ♂, and ♀ do not). The reply box where I type stuff in also shows them with and without the background colors as appropriate.

EDIT: My posted reply lacks all bg colors on them in the message body, similar to the OP, but shows them when editing the reply.

as i understand it:
all unicode characters have a "text" version
some also have an "emoji" version (with a colored background)

It's weird how this works. On my computer the difference is clear. But if I place the cursor over the thread title, the tooltip shows them as the same thing.

The alias in the title shows a "✡" with a purple background, to be aliased to one without the background.

Even more confusing, when I copy the one without the background it still shows up with the background in the text box. But the background is gone when I hit post.

The "similar alias suggestions" don't look any different.

Checking with BabelMap, the emoji versions send me to character U+FE0F named "emoji variation selector", while the "regular" versions send me to the normal Unicode character. So, it seems that in UTF-8 emojis are described as that one specific character, and on many websites and in various software, the normal character is being forcefully transformed into the corresponding emoji character. I'm pretty sure there are a few additional invisible characters that specify which exact emoji is supposed to be shown.

Ah yes, let's alias the bisexual ninja star to the straight ninja star.