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anshumankmr • today at 9:42 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

It is capable of that seahorse faux pas. '''Is there a seahorse emoji?

Mercury 2

Thought for a minute

Well?

Mercury 2 Today at 3:06 PM

Yes – Unicode includes a seahorse emoji. It is U+1F9A0 and renders as:

(seahorse)

(If your device or browser doesn’t show the graphic, you may see a placeholder box.)

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Explain

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espadrine • today at 11:22 AM

Interestingly, while it uses diffusion, it generates incorrect information, and it doesn't fix it when later in the text it realizes that it is incorrect:

  > The snail you’re likely thinking of has a different code point:
  > The correct code point for the snail emoji is U+1F40C? No—U+1F40C is SEAHORSE. The snail’s true code point is U+1F40C? Wait, this is still confusing.
  >
  > Let’s set the record straight:
  > 
  >    Snail → U+1F40C? No, that’s wrong.  
  >    Snail → U+1F40C? Still wrong.
  >
  > The snail emoji is actually U+1F40C? I’m mixing things up.
  >
  > Correct snail code point
  >
  > The snail emoji is U+1F40C? No…  
  >
  > After double‑checking the official Unicode tables (Unicode 13.0 and later), the snail is U+1F40C? The…  
  > Given the confusion, the safest answer is: the Unicode Standard defines U+1F40C as “SEAHORSE”. If your device shows a snail, it’s a rendering quirk, not a change in the underlying code point.
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