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Why is there U+E183 "Trump"[1] that is just a caricature of Trump? Seems a little bit daft to add any kind of political bias? I would expect extensions to Uni

Why is there U+E183 "Trump"[1] that is just a caricature of Trump? Seems a little bit daft to add any kind of political bias? I would expect extensions to Unicode like that to be pretty universal, and to not include specific current political figures. Same with Great Thunberg[2] -- I just dont see why these characters are in any way revelant enough. Do we add Putin? Do we add Einstein? Do we add Hitler? Do we add all the Caesars? How about emperor of the holy roman empire? Oppenheimer? Ghandi? There should certainly be a line. Last thing that needs to be more political are emojis. [1]: https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E183/ https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E183/ [2]: https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E188/ https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E188/

throw_a_grenade 3y ago
U+E000 through U+F8FF is "private use area": https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UE000.pdf https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UE000.pdf . Those characters were not "added to Unicode", but every font is free to add whatever they want there. Those are obviously not interoperable, that is, other font designers can place entirely different characters there.
- lionkor 3y ago
  Of course, yes, but for an "OpenMoji" project I would have expected a bit more professionalism.
  - masukomi 3y ago
    ... for a project done by a bunch of volunteers and young students likely having fun making little graphics without compensation, and with a name that involves a casual shortening of the key term ..... you expected "professionalism" young students... and random volunteers... who aren't getting paid... do you _really_ think that an expectation of "professionalism" is one that lines up well with the reality of the project?
    - lionkor 3y ago
      I was going to share and use this, yes, but this smells of the kind of quirkiness I dont care for. Thats all.
      - zapzupnz 3y ago
        Fortunately, you can just ignore the icons you don't want to use — namely, all the private ones.
- lionkor 3y ago
  Also, not sure why you quoted me as saying "added to Unicode", I specifically worded it as "extensions to Unicode"?
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vanderZwan 3y ago
Another commenter pointed out at least 70 students contributed to this font as part of an assignment. I'm guessing that being allowed to add their own emoji for fun in the private use area was part of the deal. Small price to pay for motivating them if you ask me.
doloputer 3y ago
I think I would prefer if emojis of people used character sequences like flags do, rather than single characters in the PUA. No idea what should be done with name conflicts.
drdaeman 3y ago
Here's another political bias: https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F52B/ https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F52B/ Mixed signals, hah. The character is - incorrectly, according to UCD, where it's still "pistol" - called "water pistol" (name probably coming either from Emojipedia or CLDR) but supposedly features a firearm.
artursapek 3y ago
notice Greta’s innocent smile lol

throw_a_grenade 3y ago

U+E000 through U+F8FF is "private use area": https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UE000.pdf https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UE000.pdf . Those characters were not "added to Unicode", but every font is free to add whatever they want there. Those are obviously not interoperable, that is, other font designers can place entirely different characters there.

lionkor 3y ago
Of course, yes, but for an "OpenMoji" project I would have expected a bit more professionalism.
- masukomi 3y ago
  ... for a project done by a bunch of volunteers and young students likely having fun making little graphics without compensation, and with a name that involves a casual shortening of the key term ..... you expected "professionalism" young students... and random volunteers... who aren't getting paid... do you _really_ think that an expectation of "professionalism" is one that lines up well with the reality of the project?
  - lionkor 3y ago
    I was going to share and use this, yes, but this smells of the kind of quirkiness I dont care for. Thats all.
    - zapzupnz 3y ago
      Fortunately, you can just ignore the icons you don't want to use — namely, all the private ones.
lionkor 3y ago
Also, not sure why you quoted me as saying "added to Unicode", I specifically worded it as "extensions to Unicode"?

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vanderZwan 3y ago

Another commenter pointed out at least 70 students contributed to this font as part of an assignment. I'm guessing that being allowed to add their own emoji for fun in the private use area was part of the deal. Small price to pay for motivating them if you ask me.

doloputer 3y ago

I think I would prefer if emojis of people used character sequences like flags do, rather than single characters in the PUA. No idea what should be done with name conflicts.

drdaeman 3y ago

Here's another political bias: https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F52B/ https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-1F52B/ Mixed signals, hah. The character is - incorrectly, according to UCD, where it's still "pistol" - called "water pistol" (name probably coming either from Emojipedia or CLDR) but supposedly features a firearm.

artursapek 3y ago

notice Greta’s innocent smile lol