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I got one love emojis and think it was one of the best decisions to include them in Unicode. I don't buy that you can have tens of thousands of weird human scr

by mijamo 4y ago

I got one love emojis and think it was one of the best decisions to include them in Unicode. I don't buy that you can have tens of thousands of weird human scripts but then a few icons representing non verbal communication is suddenly "too much". Sure a system might not support everything but the same is true for the regular text scripts. And then it means I can include emojis in my she'll script, slack messages, copy paste around, and it just works. I love it!

Aerroon 4y ago
The problem is that the emojis appear different in different applications/devices. They're different enough that it can change the meaning of what you see, which means that people end up using it in an application-specific way. But we already had application specific emoticons. They worked well, they work so well, that even with emojis in Unicode we still use application specific ones instead. Also, the default ones seem to always be ugly. Also also, the "weird human scripts" generally have a fairly long history of use.
- lozenge 4y ago
  Except... they're application specific. So, no ability to copy and paste, no way to send SMS to one person then iMessage to another then WhatsApp. Every app having a different keyboard with different icons in a different order. And what about websites? Multiple apps showing tweets? Emails?
go_elmo 4y ago
My problem with emojis is finding them. No, I dont want to search hundrets of tiny images for making a point. No, I dont want to learn another alphabet with thousands of symbols. Just _write_ is so much easier. Or link it with a unicode name to be able to refer to it without searching
- 411111111111111 4y ago
  Uh, just use the picker which has search buld-in? Windows+. On windows OSX was something like ctrl-space or something. I rarely chat on Mac so I don't recall.
  - Spivak 4y ago
    Or one of the many applications that support the :emoji_name: autocomplete.

by mijamo 4y ago

Aerroon 4y ago

The problem is that the emojis appear different in different applications/devices. They're different enough that it can change the meaning of what you see, which means that people end up using it in an application-specific way. But we already had application specific emoticons. They worked well, they work so well, that even with emojis in Unicode we still use application specific ones instead. Also, the default ones seem to always be ugly. Also also, the "weird human scripts" generally have a fairly long history of use.

lozenge 4y ago
Except... they're application specific. So, no ability to copy and paste, no way to send SMS to one person then iMessage to another then WhatsApp. Every app having a different keyboard with different icons in a different order. And what about websites? Multiple apps showing tweets? Emails?

go_elmo 4y ago

My problem with emojis is finding them. No, I dont want to search hundrets of tiny images for making a point. No, I dont want to learn another alphabet with thousands of symbols. Just _write_ is so much easier. Or link it with a unicode name to be able to refer to it without searching

411111111111111 4y ago
Uh, just use the picker which has search buld-in? Windows+. On windows OSX was something like ctrl-space or something. I rarely chat on Mac so I don't recall.
- Spivak 4y ago
  Or one of the many applications that support the :emoji_name: autocomplete.