4 ms·

I'm really trying to see this as a positive. Sorry, but I just can't do it.

• deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
• nothrabannosir 11y ago
  No need. The Unicode Consortium is not a therapeutic institution. It's about humans and their language, not about happiness. The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation devoted to developing, maintaining, and promoting software internationalization standards and data, particularly the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and standards. The Unicode Consortium actively develops standards in the area of internationalization including defining the behavior and relationships between Unicode characters. - http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html
  • Pyxl101 11y ago
    The primary use of this icon will most likely be friends joking with each other. I don't see why this is a bad thing. Friend A: <Joke at Friend B's expense> Friend B: <REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED> As I write this, it reminds me a bit of http://bash.org/?23396 http://bash.org/?23396
  • zamalek 11y ago
    > It's about humans and their language Particularly relevant because e.g.: * <OK HAND SIGN> is offensive in Brazil. * <THUMBS UP> is offensive in the middle-east. Unicode assigns numbers to the symbols. Humans assign meanings to the symbols.
    • marcosdumay 11y ago
      > <OK HAND SIGN> is offensive in Brazil. Well, not really. It may be, or may not. People use it as an Ok symbol too, what makes it quite useless for either use.