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by smathis 3226 days ago
Additionally, icon fonts rely on the PUA to render their glyphs. Given the emoji explosion over the past several years, that PUA is getting harder and harder to assign glyphs to.

I can't be the only one that's visited a site on my phone and found emojis where an icon font glyph was meant to be.

See probably the most famous example: https://www.etsy.com/teams/7720/bugs/discuss/14559563/