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Unicode Consortium is such an odd organization. Why is a snowman in the symbol table when the universal On/Off symbol isn't? What about the USB symbol?
by chewxy 13y ago
Unicode Consortium is such an odd organization. Why is a snowman in the symbol table when the universal On/Off symbol isn't? What about the USB symbol?
- daliusd 13y agoSnowman is in table because of weather (like ☂ and some other symbols). I would like to understand what cats and dogs are doing in unicode: 😾 😸 🐶 (I kind of like that Mac OS X is using images for these)
- patio11 13y agoThe Unicode Consortium added most of the commonly supported emoji (picture-characters: http://wap2.jp/emoji/imode/?act=list http://wap2.jp/emoji/imode/?act=list) from Japanese cell phones to the list of glyphs Unicode supports. As a result, if something was socially important enough to make it into early generations of featurephones in Japan back in the day, it is now in Unicode. Cats/dogs made the cut, along with a bunch of characters which are a bit more esoteric by Western standards, such as a pictograph representing hot springs or the silhouette of Mt. Fuji. Many American programmers of my acquaintance believe U+1F4A9 (pile of poo) got grandfathered in at the same time, but they are historically mistaken. Japanese phones didn't have the pile of poo until much later.
- golergka 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji