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on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:04AM
from the how-did-we-communicate-before-the-brocolli-emoji? dept.
from the how-did-we-communicate-before-the-brocolli-emoji? dept.
The consortium that approves emojis has signed off on 56 new ones, including a woman breastfeeding a baby, a woman wearing a hijab and a "gender-inclusive" child, adult and older adult.
Among the other emoji that will be released in 2017 by Unicode are a face vomiting, a head exploding and a man and woman practising yoga. A flying saucer, vampire and T-rex also made the cut, as did a sandwich, broccoli and a pair of socks.
Unicode 10.0 will also include 285 hentaigana (obsolete/historical variants of Japanese hiragana) and 3 additional Zanabazar Square characters.
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(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:09AM
How long before unicode collapses under the weight of its scope-creep and we have to start all over again?
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:24AM
Too late.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just have a standard for applying colors to pixels in a grid of specified size? I'm sure someone could even come up with a compression algorithm for it.
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(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:56AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format? [wikipedia.org]
:)
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:35PM
whooshed
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:52PM
It's only "whoosh" when it's actually funny. You can't type something inane and then claim "whoosh."
(Score: 4, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 16 2016, @08:02PM
Is there already an Emoji for "whoosh"?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday November 17 2016, @10:43PM
💨
http://emojipedia.org/dash-symbol/ [emojipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by julian on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:58AM
We need resolution independent graphics now so we're talking about vectors
(Score: 1) by ewk on Wednesday November 16 2016, @09:20AM
The 80's are calling... they want their PostScript back :-)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:37PM
DVI, baby! It was perfect in the 80's, and it is just as perfect now. Come out of the Microsoft Dark Ages and return to sanity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @06:39AM
Never? It’s not like every font will implement all of these emoji. Or more like only specifically made fonts will care about this. Everyone else will continue as before. ZWJ abuse should stop, though.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:48AM
Well, maybe that would be a good idea. It would also be a chance to undo the very few errors done by the early Unicode versions.
Basically I think there are two: One is the UTF16 encoding, due to the fact that originally they thought 16 bits should be enough, and then having to extend it to more bits; starting over with more bits from the beginning should allow a better UTF16 replacement, and the second is that they decided that combining characters *follow* the base character instead of preceding it. After avoiding to require lookahead in the code point encoding (you can decide if your code point is finished without reading the code unit following the code point), they reintroduced it in the glyph composition (you don't know if your glyph is finished until you've read the first code point belonging to the next glyph, to see that it isn't yet another combining character).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Wednesday November 16 2016, @02:09PM
Be careful what you wish for: https://m.xkcd.com/927/ [xkcd.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:02PM
Indeed nothing advocates coping with squares and little numbers in them more than getting "breastfeeding mom" and "gender inclusive kid" in your forum replies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @03:42PM
I'm partial to: FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH VOMITING