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> Emoji is a Japanese word, which is the biggest hint they didn't come from Microsoft. (And yes, its a specific subset of Unicode characters, though that proper
by mcpackieh 3y ago
> Emoji is a Japanese word, which is the biggest hint they didn't come from Microsoft. (And yes, its a specific subset of Unicode characters, though that proper use is getting diluted by people using it to refer to any and every inline pictograph in text, even non-Unicode ones,
Emoji as originally created/used in Japan were not Unicode, Unicode emoji only came many years later, so referring to non-unicode emoji as emoji isn't improper and doesn't dilute the term.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoBut the MSN Messenger emoticons from Microsoft were not those Japanese emoji. That term was only popularized with the iPhone.
- mcpackieh 3y agoI didn't say they were, I didn't say anything about MSN messenger. What I said is that Japanese emoji were not originally implemented with Unicode, therefore non-Unicode emoji are not improper or diluted emoji. Emoji does not imply Unicode, Unicode is just an implementation detail of modern emoji, it isn't and never was a defining attribute of emoji; for the first several years of emoji's existence in Japan, Unicode wasn't involved.