Character set and smart basic question

[Dav]

I was exploring the many characters available on my iPad with smart basic CHR$() command, and notices some nice ones that would work well in games.

My question is, would that show up the same on any apple device? Or is it special to my iPad. For example, the following code shows some great graphics I could use in programs. Would those images display on any iPad?

- Dav

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Set output font size "56"

'show soccer ball
print chr$(9917);

'frosty snowman
print chr$(9924);

'big star
print chr$(11088)

'show chess pieces
for t = 9812 to 9823
   print chr$(t);
next t

[Operator]

They show up on my iPad mini 1. generation.
Those char set are the emoji...
As far as tested, one can't increase "text size"
with those, but one could scan them and save
them as sprites...
I tried to use the "arrow" emoji on my game pad
snippet but got a micro offset at the same position between my iPhone4 and iPad mini...,
that's why the arrow pads are now made by
triangles...

[Mr. Kibernetik]

iPad, iOS 5.1:

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iPad Air 2, iOS 8.2:

IMG_0426.jpg (30.76 KiB) Viewed 1848 times

[Operator]

'replace X with an emoji...
GRAPHICS
FOR i = 5 TO 100 STEP 10
DRAW FONT SIZE i
DRAW TEXT STR$(i)&": "&"X" AT 0,10+i*3.2
PAUSE 0.1
NEXT i

[Dav]

Thank you for the replies. Wow, there are many useful characters available on iPad! I've only been use to 256 total under the PC.

- Dav