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Personally the whole emoji thing is an unmitigated disaster. I'm okay with smileys and gestures but everything else is pointless
by sourcegrift 4mo ago
Personally the whole emoji thing is an unmitigated disaster. I'm okay with smileys and gestures but everything else is pointless
- vintermann 4mo agoI'm okay with smileys, but Unicode wasn't the right standard to deal with it. Unicode maybe wasn't the right standard to deal with anything. At least nothing is wiggling. Of those Unicode points which are graphical, at least all of them can still be printed on paper and won't require a screen. I wonder how long that invariant lasts.
- account42 4mo agoIt's classic scope creep resulting in unmanageable bloat.
- adzm 4mo agoPersonally I think the whole emoji thing is a triumph of Unicode. Being able to convey more subtext through emoji makes communication so much easier especially across language boundaries.
- Bolwin 4mo agoI've never seen emoji used for subtext. Usually they just repeat or emphasize what's in the text
- trvz 4mo agoI enjoy putting emojis in folder names on my computer for easier visual identification. Also, in passwords on websites to keep developers on their toes.
- sourcegrift 4mo agoThe password thing is hilarious but the former breaks some of my Unix tools
- numpad0 4mo agoGoogle/Apple needed it to fill the moat for Japanese phone market - for Google it was because Japanese carriers were stripping emoji from outgoing emails, and for Apple it was because iPhone as a real phone and not an Internet-connected pocket PC with voice call had to support the SoftBank emoji set. And yeah, :slack-style-emoji-notation: is superior. It was just a historical necessity for Google/Apple.
- duskwuff 4mo agoPersonally, I'm all for it. It's been an incredibly effective way of urging developers to support newer Unicode standards.
- gschizas 4mo agoYet Microsoft still refuses to do flags.