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Emoji was supported for a long time on Japanese phones. Apple wanted to sell iPhones in Japan, so they implemented emojis using Unicode's Private Use Area which
by GlitchMr 5y ago
Emoji was supported for a long time on Japanese phones. Apple wanted to sell iPhones in Japan, so they implemented emojis using Unicode's Private Use Area which initially was a feature only available in Japan, but people quickly figured out how to use them outside of Japan.
Emojis became a rather popular feature of iPhones, and Android wanted to have emojis as well, however using Private Use Area just like iPhones did wasn't ideal, so they made a proposal to Unicode Consortium to encode emojis in Unicode.
Later, there was a lot of demand to add new emojis, so more and more emojis got encoded into the standard.
- jariel 5y agoOh, I understand all of that of course. I meant some kind of Unicode-specific debate over how it should all work and what the alternatives were.
- masklinn 5y ago> Emoji was supported for a long time on Japanese phones nit: the west did not wait for emoji to add pictorial representations in text. Dingbats are centuries old, and they’ve been part of unicode from the start.
- throw0101a 5y ago> Emoji was supported for a long time on Japanese phones. The Unicode folks should have stopped at supporting the legacy symbol set. It would have been perfectly reasonable. At this point emojis have become a weed, which any random idea and variation seemingly being accepted.