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They also lack semantics. There are downsides as well as up.
by oneeyedpigeon 1y ago
They also lack semantics. There are downsides as well as up.
- account42 1y agoUsage rather than specifications determine semantics and due to the points in my previous post those often disagree for Unicode emojis.
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoI'm glad you recognise the value of usage when it comes to emoticons vs. emoji...
- arccy 1y agoemoji lack clear semantics too, consider the eggplant.
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoI think there's a difference. The code point will always mean "eggplant", it just happens that the concept can be interpreted in different ways according to context—just like the word itself. But ":-)" can only ever mean "colon minus rparens" before further interpretation.
- skydhash 1y agoWhat’s it called is syntax, what it’s means is always context dependent. That’s why we invented formal notation, so that we can have context free interpretation (it’s bundled with its semantic so you don’t need to apply some context to it)
- account42 1y agoActually, according to Unicode, "-" doesn't mean minus - U+002D is hyphen-minus. And as for the eggplant, your semantics-as-specified are useless when 99.9% of the usage has a different intended meaning due to the inherent lack of expressiveness in a corporate-approved emoji language.
- layer8 1y agoEmojis also severely lack semantics. They are specified in terms of what they should visually depict, not what they are supposed to mean.