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by baddox 4663 days ago
Despite that being a rather interesting technical article, I am upset that my expectation of an actual Unicode depiction of a dragon was not met.
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There is actually a Unicode dragon character at code point U+1F409:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f409/index.htm

Also, since any ASCII dragon is also a valid Unicode dragon (in UTF-8, at least), the following might satisfy your needs:

http://www.dougsartgallery.com/ascii-art-dragon.html

🐉

To see this dragon, either:

1. Use Safari or Firefox on OS X. 2. Install custom fonts for Linux or Windows. 3. Install https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromoji-emoji-for... for Chrome

The dragon glyph is rendered correctly in IE10 on Windows 8 without any custom fonts. Hooray for the most underestimated browser ever ;)
Also true of mobile IE10
Next time I have some "Here be dragons" code, I'm going to use this.
There is also 🐲 U+1F432 DRAGON FACE

Also: didn't know that for every emoji there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/🐉