3 ms·

I'd expect the encoding to be much shorter. Like, 1 emoji per 4 bytes.

• burke 9y ago
  There are about 2600 emoji, so it could plausibly be 1 emoji per 3 bytes. I wonder why it was implemented so much less compactly.
  • bostonpete 9y ago
    For one emoji to represent 3 bytes in an encoding, you'd need 224 ~ 16.7M unique emojis. With 2600 emojis, the best you could do is have each one represent 11 bits (which requires 2048 unique emojis). Am I missing something here...?
    • naikrovek 9y ago
      No.
    • burke 9y ago
      Nope, I just didn’t think that through very well.