The Unicode standard just specified a "wheel". A particular amusing (read: drama inducing) case is with the 🔫 emoji: Unicode specified it as "Pistol", but depending on your font (and version), it can either appear as a water gun, or a musket or revolver.

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), all major vendors have now switched over to a water gun, so no more amusing forum threads cases by the different meanings.

So in addition to the interpretation being unclear, there is also no real standard for emoji.

orbital@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Same in Jerboa for Android.

Yes, I'm aware this may differ depending on your specific brand of Android phone. 🤷

WhoRoger@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Liar, Jerboa on Android is showing an old wooden wheel.

pancakes@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I have an older phone which is probably why i see the wooden wheel. Rubber wheels hadn't been invented yet.

can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

I have an even older phone, which is probably why I see a rectangle with a cross through it

davidgro@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It would depend on what brand and how old your phone is on Android, for example I think Samsung has its own set of emoji - at least for older phones

WhoRoger@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 2y

I was joking.

zepheriths@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's an old wagon wheel on Motorola, come on man, you have to know there is more than one android phone

astropenguin5@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Also wagon wheel on pixel 7

redcalcium@lemmy.institute · 33 pts · 2y (7 replies)

https://emojigraph.org/wheel/

Displayed as a classical wooden wheel for a dray or modern car wheel with a tire depending on the platform. May be used in the context of "reinventing the wheel."

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (6 replies)

That is so weird. And I just tried it on Firefox and got this:

So it's either a Chrome thing or a Mac and Chrome thing.

Don't hate, I have to have Chrome for work and it's a pain to run two separate browsers. I'll end up doing that eventually when my adblockers no longer work though.

Muehe@kbin.social · 16 pts · 2y

So it’s either a Chrome thing or a Mac and Chrome thing.

Neither really, it's a font thing. I see a wooden wheel in the page title, a car wheel in my tab bar, and it's missing in the window title.

Kissaki@feddit.de · 10 pts · 2y

It works fine in Firefox.

Screenshot of the headline with wheel emoji rendered in Firefox

Inspecting it, here on my instances Feddit.de rendered theme shows two fonts in use - a fallback for the emoji because I assume Lato does not include it:

Screenshot of headline fonts being used

teft@startrek.website · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It's gotta be a mac thing. I switched to my desktop browser which is firefox on win10 and it shows as the car wheel like on ios.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It appears to be a Mac and Chrome thing. I tried Firefox and posted a screenshot of that elsewhere and it is a missing image thumbnail.

willya@lemmyf.uk · 7 pts · 2y

It would be a you not having the fonts installed thing….

marcos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

You need better fonts.

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You can sell stolen wagons there.

argo_yamato@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Haha unexpected Red Dead Remption

Candelestine@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (20 replies)

Appears to be an old fashioned wooden spoke wheel. A cart wheel, as in, the wheel of an old cart. Connotations would presumably be mostly related to "rolling".

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (14 replies)

Oh weird. That's totally not what I see. Maybe it's a Mac thing?

This is what I see:

WhoRoger@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (2 replies)

If your OS doesn't support the emoji, it shows an empty or placeholder image. If you see that icon, you can copy it to clipboard and paste to search here: https://emojipedia.org/

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Thanks. I honestly didn't realize it was that it didn't support the emoji. I thought the horizontal lines WAS the emoji and I was just not getting what it meant.

can@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Double hamburger menu

gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Screenshot of this thread on Android so you can see what it looks like for others

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Not all others. Another person said it's a modern car wheel for them.

Alchemy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

That’s what it is for me on iphone using Firefox, the modern wheel.

gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I saw, and now I think it's by app for us on phones, then, as my normal android emoji keyboard has a completely different set of wheels when look at them in other apps. I use Connect and see a wagon wheel, the other guy is on Memmy and sees a modern one, kinda curious what the other apps see

WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

Thunder here, it's a wagon wheel

sarjalim@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

I also use Connect. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, I think it has to do with the emoji collection on the device rather than a specific app. Screenshot of emoji with modern car wheel in Connect app

JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

On iOS it’s a modern car wheel strangely enough

ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I see a box with a cross in the middle, as in the icon for "unsupported icon" . I imagine it's the same for you.

I'm on android.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I see a bunch of horizontal lines.

ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

Well, yea, I can see that, but I imagine the bunch of horizontal lines is how your device tells you that it encountered an "unsupported icon".

TonyOstrich@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

I don't think so, I see an old spoke wheel on Android running Liftoff.

orbital@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Rolling as in ROFL?

mathemachristian@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

I mean there is a ROFL emoji already: 🤣

UndefinedIsNotAFunction@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I hope it's related to drugs.

DiploRaucous@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I hope it's related to Limp Bizkit.

UndefinedIsNotAFunction@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y

j4k3@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It is the special group club for advanced Linux users. Like Disney's Club 33. You have to know Pam, offer hash, and keep a secret shadow file to get in.

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

Debbie can introduce you to Pam. She likes pie.

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Am I the only one who thought 'Dharma Wheel'?

ingy@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y

Hah, me too!

TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y

Looks like a carriage wheel to me

nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 2y

An secretive elite group of users rumored to be able to obtain the great power of root.

Nemo@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y

maybe like a settings wheel?