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What does this mean? How can an emoji not have an emoji presentation?

by EdiX 10y ago

josephmx 10y ago
I assume they reserve the unicode character, but anyone who wants to use it decides what it looks like (so the rifle could look different on different platforms, which isn't a big issue)
- intopieces 10y ago
  This is always true for Emoji. The platforms always decide what their presentation of emoji will look like, just as they determine what font they will use for the unicode traditional letters. In this case, Apple and others decided they didn't want a rifle emoji, so it was moved to the 'black and white symbols' section so that those platforms wouldn't be 'missing' an emoji, which has other technical implications.
intopieces 10y ago
An emoji cannot be an emoji without having emoji presentation. There is a rifle character that resembles, in form and function, the other Olympic emoji, it's just not sitting in the set reserved for emoji. Any platform that wants to pick it up can use it, they can even put it next to all their other emoji if they want to. Apple, et al did not 'prevent' Rifle from being encoded. They just decided they wouldn't pick it up as an emoji for their platform, and the Unicode conference decided to move it to a different category based on that decision. There are literally thousands of characters that Apple doesn't encode for their platforms. I haven't heard whether Apple will be supporting: Osage, a Native American language Nepal Bhasa, a language of Nepal Fulani and other African languages The Bravanese dialect of Swahili, used in Somalia The Warsh orthography for Arabic, used in North and West Africa Tangut, a major historic script of China All of which were added to Unicode 9. >The two characters will still be part of the Unicode spec, but they'll be classed as black-and-white "symbols" instead of regular emoji http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/apple-and-microsoft-pushed-to-remove-the-rifle-emoji-from-unicode-9-0/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/apple-and-microsoft-pus...

What does this mean? How can an emoji not have an emoji presentation?

by EdiX 10y ago

What does this mean? How can an emoji not have an emoji presentation?

I assume they reserve the unicode character, but anyone who wants to use it decides what it looks like (so the rifle could look different on different platforms, which isn't a big issue)

intopieces 10y ago
This is always true for Emoji. The platforms always decide what their presentation of emoji will look like, just as they determine what font they will use for the unicode traditional letters. In this case, Apple and others decided they didn't want a rifle emoji, so it was moved to the 'black and white symbols' section so that those platforms wouldn't be 'missing' an emoji, which has other technical implications.

intopieces 10y ago

An emoji cannot be an emoji without having emoji presentation. There is a rifle character that resembles, in form and function, the other Olympic emoji, it's just not sitting in the set reserved for emoji. Any platform that wants to pick it up can use it, they can even put it next to all their other emoji if they want to. Apple, et al did not 'prevent' Rifle from being encoded. They just decided they wouldn't pick it up as an emoji for their platform, and the Unicode conference decided to move it to a different category based on that decision. There are literally thousands of characters that Apple doesn't encode for their platforms. I haven't heard whether Apple will be supporting: Osage, a Native American language Nepal Bhasa, a language of Nepal Fulani and other African languages The Bravanese dialect of Swahili, used in Somalia The Warsh orthography for Arabic, used in North and West Africa Tangut, a major historic script of China All of which were added to Unicode 9. >The two characters will still be part of the Unicode spec, but they'll be classed as black-and-white "symbols" instead of regular emoji http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/apple-and-microsoft-pushed-to-remove-the-rifle-emoji-from-unicode-9-0/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/06/apple-and-microsoft-pus...