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While I agree with your sentiment, can you define "emoji"?
by nixpulvis 7y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, can you define "emoji"?
- NateEag 7y agoA graphical or iconographic concept that cannot be unambiguously represented by a single character in any natural language and which does not have a single standardized rendering (e.g. the Power symbol does have a single standard rendering and is therefore not an emoji). I'm no character or Unicode expert - that's just a wild stab in the dark, largely based on why I dislike emoji being in Unicode.
- jimnotgym 7y agoI still prefer ASCII style smilies to emojies ;-) I promise to never do that on HN again!
- ksaj 7y agoMy sister pointed out that I'm a little random about mixing them. I use both, based solely on what I feel like typing at the time. And I'm acutely aware that the emojis she sees are not the ones I do, but the ASCII ones are pretty much the same, since I use Android and she's an Apple-head. Besides, I love the slobbering ASCII guy ;-p~~~~ None of the emojis let you amplify slobber according to need like that.
- schindlabua 7y agoOne emoji I wish I had a good ASCII alternative for is :thinking: U+1F914. There is :^) but only the skype generation will make sense of that.
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- commandlinefan 7y agoI've changed my emoji writing style from the canonical ;) to ; ) just so that editors won't auto "correct" my proper ASCII emoji into an unholy yellow winking face.
- jimnotgym 7y agoThat is a great tip! I wish I had thought of that : )