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Oh no! Hundreds of smileys (emoji) in the character set. Usually I block the smiley-gifs with an ad-blocker. Need to look for a character-based blocker now.

by Jakob 16y ago

wcoenen 16y ago
I don't think emoticons are a bad idea. I quite like the attidunal indicators (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less1attitude.html http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less...) in lojban (http://www.lojban.org http://www.lojban.org) also.
- varaon 16y ago
  This lets smileys be (more easily) understood by screen readers as well.
masklinn 16y ago
Why do you care for unmoving glyphs, do you also attempt to block Unicode smileys?
jws 16y ago
You can see them on the 2nd page of http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F600.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F600.pdf Rather more than I might ever need, but that comes with the territory of Unicode. • 3 variations of cold sweat. • 9 variations of cat faces, mercifully none of them include a LOL. • The {see,hear,speak}-no-evil trilogy is represented. • Weirdly, the iconic smiley face, two dots and an arc in a circle is not present. You have to pop over to 263A and get that one. • To encourage adoption, I will start using 1F645 in real life to indicate NO GOOD, though no one will understand why I impersonate a walrus. Sadly, there is HAPPY PERSON RAISING ONE HAND and PERSON RAISING BOTH HANDS IN CELEBRATION, but without both a left and a right one hand or a pair of leaning two hands we can't make the emiticons sway back and forth to music. Oh well, unicode 7.0. (And I think PERSON RAISING BOTH HANDS IN CELEBRATION looks like he is the victim of a stick-up.) Handy Link: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ wherein George Douros gives you free use of his many fonts of obscure unicode symbols, but he hasn't drawn the Unicode 7 ones.
- jacobolus 16y ago
  There is also a new “miscellaneous symbols and pictographs” block, including a lot of user interface icon type symbols: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F300.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F300.pdf And new “transport and map symbols”: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F680.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F680.pdf
- astrange 16y ago
  > 9 variations of cat faces, mercifully none of them include a LOL. That would require standardizing the Impact font.

Oh no! Hundreds of smileys (emoji) in the character set. Usually I block the smiley-gifs with an ad-blocker. Need to look for a character-based blocker now.

by Jakob 16y ago

Oh no! Hundreds of smileys (emoji) in the character set. Usually I block the smiley-gifs with an ad-blocker. Need to look for a character-based blocker now.

wcoenen 16y ago

I don't think emoticons are a bad idea. I quite like the attidunal indicators (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less1attitude.html http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/lojbanbrochure/lessons/less...) in lojban (http://www.lojban.org http://www.lojban.org) also.

varaon 16y ago
This lets smileys be (more easily) understood by screen readers as well.

masklinn 16y ago

Why do you care for unmoving glyphs, do you also attempt to block Unicode smileys?

jws 16y ago

You can see them on the 2nd page of http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F600.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F600.pdf Rather more than I might ever need, but that comes with the territory of Unicode. • 3 variations of cold sweat. • 9 variations of cat faces, mercifully none of them include a LOL. • The {see,hear,speak}-no-evil trilogy is represented. • Weirdly, the iconic smiley face, two dots and an arc in a circle is not present. You have to pop over to 263A and get that one. • To encourage adoption, I will start using 1F645 in real life to indicate NO GOOD, though no one will understand why I impersonate a walrus. Sadly, there is HAPPY PERSON RAISING ONE HAND and PERSON RAISING BOTH HANDS IN CELEBRATION, but without both a left and a right one hand or a pair of leaning two hands we can't make the emiticons sway back and forth to music. Oh well, unicode 7.0. (And I think PERSON RAISING BOTH HANDS IN CELEBRATION looks like he is the victim of a stick-up.) Handy Link: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ wherein George Douros gives you free use of his many fonts of obscure unicode symbols, but he hasn't drawn the Unicode 7 ones.

jacobolus 16y ago
There is also a new “miscellaneous symbols and pictographs” block, including a lot of user interface icon type symbols: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F300.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F300.pdf And new “transport and map symbols”: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F680.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F680.pdf
astrange 16y ago
> 9 variations of cat faces, mercifully none of them include a LOL. That would require standardizing the Impact font.