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I don't have an answer, but emojis seem to have been inspired by the Japanese culture. Perhaps steam from the nose is a common Japanese representation of victor
by 1_player 10y ago
I don't have an answer, but emojis seem to have been inspired by the Japanese culture. Perhaps steam from the nose is a common Japanese representation of victory?
I get that emojis were first invented for use on Japanese phones, but I don't understand why they kept them Japanese oriented when merged into Unicode? There's ideographs [1], acronyms that are relevant only to JP [2] and fish on a pole [3]
Surely we could've made better use of the Unicode space to use a common set of symbol shared by all cultures.
1: http://emojipedia.org/squared-cjk-unified-ideograph-7981/ http://emojipedia.org/squared-cjk-unified-ideograph-7981/
2: http://emojipedia.org/squared-ng/ http://emojipedia.org/squared-ng/
3: http://emojipedia.org/carp-streamer/ http://emojipedia.org/carp-streamer/
- Freak_NL 10y ago> Surely we could've made better use of the Unicode space […] There is plenty of space. Keep in mind that one of the goals of Unicode is to be able to represent existing corpora of text by means of a global standard. Emoji were in widespread use in Japanese mobile phones long before smartphones existed; that alone legitimises their presence in the Unicode standard. Like a dictionary, the Unicode standard is in a large part descriptive rather than prescriptive. It catalogues what is in use, not what ought to be used. However, recent emoji contributions do seem to have been made in the spirit of filling lacunae in the set.
- franciscop 10y agoThat actually happens a lot with English but native English speakers (or those foreigners with similar langs/cultures) normally don't realize that it is happening. Defining world culture symbols would be pretty hard. If you count by number of people there'd be a lot more Asian cultural things than you would expect.