From: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com>
Subject: Re: httpd: improve directory index CSS
To: Mike Fischer <fischer+obsd@lavielle.com>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 23:20:59 +1000


> On 31 May 2024, at 22:46, Mike Fischer <fischer+obsd@lavielle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Kind of. Currently browsers can choose to render some unicode 
>> characters as emojis instead of text. For reference, this is what the 
>> auto index page looks like in iOS Safari: https://0x0.st/XN6y.png
>> 
>> This CSS property will, at a point in the future, ensure the unicode 
>> text is displayed as the original text instead of replaced with emojis. 
>> Browser support for this property currently requires the user 
>> explicitly enable it in Firefox and Safari.
> 
> That is fine. In the mean time you could just use this to avoid the emoji substitution:
> content: "\a0\2195\fe0e";
> 
> See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-variant-emoji

I think this is the preferable solution. It works now without users 
explicitly enabling aa CSS property. New patch attached.