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More like weaponized by making it a moat against “PC”, and so Google did its thing.
by numpad0 3y ago
More like weaponized by making it a moat against “PC”, and so Google did its thing.
- lifthrasiir 3y agoThat's much later than the initial Emoji assignments, and pretty expectable given much broad reach of availability. The earliest UTC decision regarding Emoji is [1] AFAIK. [1] https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07225.htm#112-C12 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07225.htm#112-C12 (links to https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07274-symbols.txt https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2007/07274-symbols.txt)
- numpad0 3y agoEmoji was always carrier dependent and Japanese carriers always had conversion/filtering at carrier e-mail MTA, years before 2007. I think you have in mind one of later coordinated attempts at it.
- lifthrasiir 3y agoOh, I assumed the other meaning of PC (not Personal Computer). You are right, Google and Apple had to deal with them because emails went through their pipelines.