The shift-option-K Apple logo glyph is not cross platform

Interesting post from Daring Fireball:

On the Mac, you can put an Apple logo in any text field by typing Shift-Option-K. This might date back all the way to System 1.0 in 1984. Some people use this to spell the name of products like Apple TV and Apple Watch. It’s super-common with Apple Watch, in fact, almost certainly because Apple uses the logo mark (that is to say, the Apple logo glyph followed by “WATCH” in all caps or, even fancier, small cap Unicode glyphs).

This is a bad idea for a few reasons. First, it is not a standard Unicode character and almost certainly never will be — because it is Apple’s copyrighted intellectual property.

So if you are on a Mac, this character –  – will appear as the Apple logo. If you are on a Windows machine, you’ll see nothing (or perhaps a square/missing character symbol) between the two hyphens.

Read the rest of Gruber’s post for thoughts on the down side of this approach.