"Firstly, a group of five characters representing specific cultural icons (Mount Fuji, Tokyo Tower, Statue of Liberty, Silhouette of Japan and Statue of Moyai) have been vigorously opposed because they give the appearance of setting a precedent for encoding hundreds of other characters representing cultural or nationalistic icons, such as the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza, the Eiffel Tower, Tower Bridge, Mount Kilimanjaro, etc. etc. Some of us would have prefered to encode generic versions of these characters (e.g. Snow-Capped Mountain instead of Mount Fuji), but Google insisted that these characters had specific semantics that generic versions of the characters would not be able to represent, so in the end they were accepted as is." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

If I believe http://www.unicode.org/~schere..., these are proposed for Unicode: Western Person, Man With Gua Pi Mao, Man With Turban, Baby, Japanese Ogre, Baby Angel, Alien Monster, Dancer, Snail, Koala, Face With Cold Sweat, Cat Face With Tightly-Closed Lips, See No Evil Monkey, Japanese Post Office, Love Hotel, Woman's Sandal, Bikini, Japanese Kitchen Knife, Syringe, Father Christmas, Graduation Cap, Moon Viewing Ceremony, Running Shirt with Sash, Ferris Wheel, Top Hat, Slot Machine, Flower Playing Cards, No One Under Eighteen Symbol, Hamburger, Dumpling, Seafood Casserole, Bento Box, Fish Cake With Swirly Design, Broken Heart, Anger Symbol, Splashing Sweat Symbol, Pile of Poo - Amit Patel

U+1F4A9 = PILE OF POO - Amit Patel

U+1F4A8 is a decent character for 'fart' as well. - James Robinson

This is obviously a campaign by the creator of U+2619 REVERSED ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET to make something else be the silliest character in unicode. - Ben Darnell

We worked hard to get the pile of poo in there. - Darren

They *totally* need to include a .ttf file with all the characters. - Steve and 3 other people

Is U+1F4A9 the official code point of Unicode 6.0? - Jim Norris

On those remote code blocks in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, it is written that code points are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance. - Jim Norris

Is that U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO I see in this domain name? http://www.panic.com/blog... - Amit Patel

Wonderful, Jim. - Private Sanjeev