Courts are having trouble with emoji when they’re entered as evidence. They’re inconsistently omitted, software doesn’t support them ubiquitously (i.e. Westlaw), and the different appearances on different platforms can lead to conflicting interpretation.
The main reason I’m sharing this is because of one of the absurd paragraphs that made me laugh out loud.
[…] a court ruled that their use of emoji to a landlord signaled an intent to rent his apartment. After sending an enthusiastic text confirming that they wanted the apartment, which contained a string of emoji including a champagne bottle, a squirrel, and a comet, they stopped responding to the landlord’s texts […]