Not off topic at all!
replyWhile in this case we’d included the emoji font for displaying user content in another part of the app, the hazard of letting a “simple” approach expand and get out of hand is part of what I wanted to convey in writing this.
Not OT at all. Emojis everywere are ridiculous. And coding agents love them! They put emojis in Python log lines which inevitably break the console, and of course in web pages. Logs don't need emojis. Not sure if anything does.
replyI love using emojis in my log lines, especially symbols for info/warn/error, but it does add another layer of complexity as you have to go through so many things to make sure the text is now rendered in the right font, has Unicode support enabled, etc, etc.
replyI agree that the font and emoji hops aren’t great for complexity or performance, but the problem in the post was in the rendering of a tiny SVG; serving it directly would not have avoided the problem.
replyI would say just reusing widely-used emojis you have already downloaded would be less error prone
reply... assuming it all works ofc (though you could say that about serving svgs too)