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Is there anything one need to consider when now allowing to change the directionality of certain emojis? Like, if you flip a bicycle, you can't do that naively

Is there anything one need to consider when now allowing to change the directionality of certain emojis? Like, if you flip a bicycle, you can't do that naively by just flipping the image, as the chainrings should be on the right side of the bike. (Lots of leftward facing bike emojis mistakenly shows the big cog on the wrong side now, though..)

3pt14159 3y ago
I once thought (incorrectly) that .ws domains were going to be the new hot thing since I failed to appreciate how other TLDs would allow emojis and thus, make none of them actually worth anything. To answer your question: Yes. I thought ruby handled it automatically, but it turns out that, no, you need to actually do fiddly stuff with some of the emojis like this one: https://emojipedia.org/man-raising-hand-light-skin-tone/ https://emojipedia.org/man-raising-hand-light-skin-tone/ https://imgur.com/a/kFXsadq https://imgur.com/a/kFXsadq In general though, emojis are more complicated than people give them credit for. There was one domain I had that you could only type on Android and not iOS! The exact encoding for one of the emoji slightly differed. I can't remember all the details, but emoji is annoying and best to be avoided if you can.
- pxc 3y ago
  > I thought ruby handled it automatically, but it turns out that, no, you need to actually do fiddly stuff with some of the emojis like this one does Ruby also do this with other combining characters like accent marks? If you use a combining accent character in a string in Ruby and reverse the string does the accent mark hop from one character to another?
seniorsassycat 3y ago
Many scissor emoji couldn't close, and ants don't have a waist - accuracy is not a core requirement of emoji. I noticed that the flipped person with cane emoji became left handed. Will we get dominant hand modifiers and more permutations? https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomolo... https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html

3pt14159 3y ago

I once thought (incorrectly) that .ws domains were going to be the new hot thing since I failed to appreciate how other TLDs would allow emojis and thus, make none of them actually worth anything. To answer your question: Yes. I thought ruby handled it automatically, but it turns out that, no, you need to actually do fiddly stuff with some of the emojis like this one: https://emojipedia.org/man-raising-hand-light-skin-tone/ https://emojipedia.org/man-raising-hand-light-skin-tone/ https://imgur.com/a/kFXsadq https://imgur.com/a/kFXsadq In general though, emojis are more complicated than people give them credit for. There was one domain I had that you could only type on Android and not iOS! The exact encoding for one of the emoji slightly differed. I can't remember all the details, but emoji is annoying and best to be avoided if you can.

pxc 3y ago
> I thought ruby handled it automatically, but it turns out that, no, you need to actually do fiddly stuff with some of the emojis like this one does Ruby also do this with other combining characters like accent marks? If you use a combining accent character in a string in Ruby and reverse the string does the accent mark hop from one character to another?

seniorsassycat 3y ago

Many scissor emoji couldn't close, and ants don't have a waist - accuracy is not a core requirement of emoji. I noticed that the flipped person with cane emoji became left handed. Will we get dominant hand modifiers and more permutations? https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomolo... https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html https://wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html