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I think if you ship the font in your app to get consistent emoji renderings across platforms (no need to dump unicode for this) you might have appeased the peop
by est31 7y ago
I think if you ship the font in your app to get consistent emoji renderings across platforms (no need to dump unicode for this) you might have appeased the people who want emojis to look the same on all platforms, but then you will enrage the people who want emojis on all of their apps to look the same.
- vanderZwan 7y agoI suspect the latter is a significantly smaller group though - I would expect people care more about their messages coming across unchanged
- hairofadog 7y agoInteresting. I’d think the opposite: I bet the number of times the average user looks at their own message on someone else’s device is pretty low, while they might have a chance to notice the differences in emoji between app A and app B on their own device several times per day.
- goto11 7y ago> I bet the number of times the average user looks at their own message on someone else’s device is pretty low That is not the issue. The issue is that users expect the emoji they send to look the same to the receiver. Geeks know that emojis are "characters" and therefor might look slightly different in different fonts. But this is not how the average user sees it. They see emojis as small images and expect them to transfer unaltered just like any other image they put into a message.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoSo how much space will be wasted shipping a bunch of fonts that all include however many goddamned emojis there are?
- vmednis 7y agoSeems like the number is about 7MB[1] per font, looking at a real world example. 1. https://imgur.com/a/iMHYtjB https://imgur.com/a/iMHYtjB