[veave]

™ is not an emoji. It's part of the "Letterlike Symbols" block.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Oops, good point. I think I'm going to leave it as-is on account of not knowing of any actual emoji that HN allows, but yes that is technically incorrect on my part.

[veave]

I think the confusion comes from the fact that some platforms render it as a drawing as if it was an emoji. I never understood why...

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Speaking only for myself, the confusion comes purely from the fact that I think of all text as "ASCII" or "Unicode" (...or "something else that nobody should use in the modern era"), and I don't really distinguish within "valid unicode that isn't ascii".

[veave]

™ is part of extended ASCII :)