Chrome does not render emoji in color when using sans-serif font-face
There could be a workaround…
UTF has special characters to control the rendering. U+FE0E`` asks OS and browser to render the previous glyph as text, U+FE0F`` asks to render the previous glyph as emoji.
— Nikita Dubko in Prevent text glyphs from turning into emojis
… but another bug in Chrome prevent is from working
964527 - Chrome often ignores emoji and text variation selectors U+FE0F and U+FE0E - chromium...
GLYF
onethingwell :
Glyf is a Unicode character picker for iOS 8.
It is packaged as a custom keyboard, so you can use Glyf from inside any application.
App Store
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) – Joel on Software
In this article I’ll fill you in on exactly what every working programmer should know. All that stuff about “plain text = ascii = characters are 8 bits” is not only wrong, it’s hopelessly wrong, and if you’re still programming that way, you’re not much better than a medical doctor who doesn’t believe in germs....
HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
rentzsch :
Good is the enemy of Great
Latin-1 is the enemy of UTF-8
You write web apps. You understand the web is global, and want to support internationalization. You want UTF-8.
UTF-8 is extremely sane. Well, as sane as an encoding can be that features backwards-compatibility with ASCII.
What follows is a playbook to win your pervasive-UTF-8 battle.