For many years, most of the Internet ran on ASCII, a character set that had a limited number of accents and diacriticals, and which didn’t support non-Roman script at all. Unicode, a massive, sprawling replacement, has room for all sorts of characters and alphabets, and can be extended with “private use areas” that include support for Klingon.
But for all that, I never dreamt that Unicode was so vast as to contain a special character for a “pile of poo.”
Name: PILE OF POO
Block: Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs
Category: Symbol, Other [So]
Index entries: POO, PILE OF
Comments: dog dirt
Version: Unicode 6.0.0 (October 2010)
HTML Entity: 💩
Here is “Pile of Poo” in whatever font your browser renders this page in: 💩
Unicode Character ‘PILE OF POO’ (U+1F4A9)