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> Emoji business is surely ugly (and I have complained about this a lot), but the very reason that Unicode has emoji is that Japanese telcos have exposed their
by throw0101a 5y ago
> Emoji business is surely ugly (and I have complained about this a lot), but the very reason that Unicode has emoji is that Japanese telcos have exposed their priprietary encodings to the wild email and both Apple and Google had to implement them for the compatibility. Blame them, not Unicode.
The initial set of emojis were brought in for compatibility purposes. The huge swaths of new emojis covering every conceivable animal, vegetable, and mineral created after that point is where problems started (IMHO).
- lifthrasiir 5y agoThe very first version of emojis was already not just a compatibility encoding. If it were solely for compatibility every character could have been just named EMOJI COMPATIBILITY-HHHHH. Unicode (correctly) determined that the presence of initial emojis would trigger further needs and prepared basic encoding principles. No trademark characters, unify with existing characters whenever possible, country flags use generic regional indicators (there was already a specific request from national bodies at that time) and so on.