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I'm going to warm up to emoji a lot after I hear stories from Africa or India (or other area where credit cards are not abundant), embedding their own culture i
by rhn_mk1 5y ago
I'm going to warm up to emoji a lot after I hear stories from Africa or India (or other area where credit cards are not abundant), embedding their own culture into the standard.
As it is, the commitee accepting emoji is heavily biased towards the West, by having web pages in English only, and by limiting access by requiring a credit card.
- toto444 5y agoAs far as I know there is no credit card required.
- rhn_mk1 5y agoI mean, the barrier to joining the Unicode Consortium – which decides on the emoji policy for everyone – is biased this way: https://www.unicode.org/consortium/joinform.html https://www.unicode.org/consortium/joinform.html Granted, it's slightly different from the emoji submission procedure, but tightly related.
- drstewart 5y agoBiased towards the west? There's emoji mountain is literally Mount Fuji, a shinkansen emoji, a literal map of Japan emoji (the only country to have one), and like half the food emojis are Japan-specific snacks.
- yoz-y 5y agoYes but this is a historical artifact from the Docomo character set.
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- rhn_mk1 5y agoOne could argue that Japan has become very close to the west after the WW2. Additionally, bias rarely manifests itself in complete erasure, but usually in making something easier, and something else more difficult.
- skhr0680 5y agoLumping Japan in with the west (but only when we feel like it) was the defining factor in the rise of fascism in Japan.