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How so? These emoji characters are in widespread use. The initial characters had competing standards amongst Japanese providers. The unicode adoption allows ind
by eclipticplane 13y ago
How so? These emoji characters are in widespread use. The initial characters had competing standards amongst Japanese providers. The unicode adoption allows indexing and searching without encoding problems. The competing standards also defined different glyphs, which feels like going back to the 80s or 90s with character pages.
Also, we can't jump a shark in Unicode, but we do have a few lovely 🐋 🐳 whales for you to jump if you'd like.
- rangibaby 13y agoThe only time I've seen whale here, it looked like this:🍣 I'm glad emoji have been standardized. Back in the dumbphone days each carrier had their own set of characters, meaning the smiley face you sent😘 might have come out as a piece of poo...
- qbrass 13y ago🏄ꞈ
- cpeterso 13y agoI think kps means that posting HN stories that link to fileformat.info.