4 ms·

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.