Heart unicode character preview shows as coloured emoji about symbl-data HOT 3 OPEN

your OS may automatically convert that non-emoji into an emoji for displaying, happens for some symbols for me too

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I'm talking about the preview shown large on the character's page, and in the search results. Versus what the browser shows if it's actually rendering that character.

If you're trying to use the site to find a symbol that looks a certain way, you want to see what it actually looks like, not an image of what it might look like in some circumstances on some device. I get that it looks nicer, showing fully-rendered emojis all the time. But that can be the opposite of useful to users of the site and search.

If we could at least toggle whether it shows those images or shows the actual characters in our browser, it would be way, way more useful to me as a developer.

That's what this issue was opened regarding.

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I get it now, I thought the preview was the symbol itself at very large font, and didn't realise that is actually a placeholder image. Yes, I agree that is quite inconvenient.
Same thing is happening for half the symbols in the "Playing card symbols" group, which is where the heart symbol is from.

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