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More emoji, seriously? Is this what the future of tech standards looks like? When is this validation-hungry-teen-catering-ego-fest going to stop... I'm getting
by oliv__ 11y ago
More emoji, seriously? Is this what the future of tech standards looks like? When is this validation-hungry-teen-catering-ego-fest going to stop...
I'm getting really sick of the direction mainstream tech (which is I guess driven by mainstream culture, or lack there of) is going these days.
- falcolas 11y agoPictograms have been with us for years. Hieroglyphs, Chinese/Japanese all have their roots in drawings of real life items. They're easy to understand and can frequently convey more meaning in a single glyph than a dozen conventional words.
- totony 11y agoI don't think unicode should be used to convey pictographs. I understand the need to cover writing systems such as hieroglyphs, but adding in randoms pictographs (like emojis) and permutations (like skin colors) seems like too much complexity for what is expected of unicode.
- lmz 11y agoEven worse: Kickstarter campaigns for Emoji e.g. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657685639/where-is-the-dumpling-emoji https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/657685639/where-is-the-... You should read the section titled "Who Controls Our Emoji?" if you want to get a little bit angrier.