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One issue with Emojis is wrong implementation messing things up. For example, I wondered why there is no "pouting" emoji. Turns out there is such an emoji in th
by cubefox 3y ago
One issue with Emojis is wrong implementation messing things up. For example, I wondered why there is no "pouting" emoji. Turns out there is such an emoji in the spec, but someone (probably Apple) decided to use that Unicode point for "red angry face" (additional to the original "angry face", which is yellow). Then all the others followed the Apple design to ensure consistency. Now the Unicode consortium can't introduce a "pouting face" emoji anymore, since they technically already did!
There are quite a few of those cases. Apparently it is mostly Apple messing up the specified emotion and the others copying the error.
- Matheus28 3y agoCouldn't they rename the existing one to represent actual usage, then introduce a new code point?
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoThere should be separate emojis for gun, squirt gun, and ray gun.
- schroeding 3y agoI would say it's more Softbanks fault[1] in this case - NTT DoCoMo's and KDDI's Emoji was clearly pouting IMO, Softbanks was... more angry-ish? Especially the earlier, pre-2008 versions. [1] https://emojipedia.org/pouting-face/ https://emojipedia.org/pouting-face/ (you can click on the actual vendor emoji on the right to get a history / previous versions)
- layer8 3y agoThere‘s a couple of the original Japanese emoji that have the problem that their visual idioms don’t translate 1:1 to Western idioms, and thus have unfortunately now been distorted in the process.