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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 31 2017, @06:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the priorities++ dept.

The cheese on Google's version of the cheeseburger emoji is in the WRONG PLACE and that is problematic:

Responding to criticism about the placement of cheese on Google's version of the cheeseburger emoji, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that he would take a look at the issue immediately. "Will drop everything else we are doing and address on Monday :) if folks can agree on the correct way to do this!" Pichai tweeted.

Pichai was responding to author Thomas Baekdal, who pointed out the difference in cheese placement between Apple's and Google's cheeseburger emojis. "I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, which Apple puts on top," Baekdal tweeted.

The tweet ignited a debate about where the different ingredients of a cheeseburger belong. Among all the different cheeseburger emoji variants offered by various tech companies, Google's is the only version to place the cheese below the meat, according to images of cheeseburger emojis from Apple, Google, Samsung, Facebook and others, as seen on Emojipedia. It's generally accepted that cheeseburger cheese should be placed directly on the meat patty for optimal melting.

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Unicode 11 emoji candidates, scheduled for June 2018.

Also at Brisbane Times and New Zealand Herald.

Previously: Tweet Emoji 4 Pizza: #Epitome of #Convenience
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Unicode 9.0 Serves up Bacon Emoji, 71 others, and Six New Scripts
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Unicode 10.0's New Emojis
Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face


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  • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:11PM (1 child)

    by Aiwendil (531) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @09:11PM (#590219) Journal

    If you know the normal way to render the tinctures (colours) in heraldry [wikipedia.org] you can get monochrome flags that convey roughly the same information.

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  • (Score: 2) by KiloByte on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:13PM

    by KiloByte (375) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @10:13PM (#590246)

    At a resolution typically used for computer text, there's no way the tincture notation can be readable, especially for flags that consist of something more than two fields of solid colour. Thus, in this case, colour indeed is vital for conveying the information. This is not the case for most other symbols, where the symbol loses no information by being monochrome, and often even is meant to be able to assume an arbitrary colour as directed by text's metadata (HTML, ANSI SGR, etc), such as red/green/yellow lock, which emoji presentation breaks: on Firefox it shows as 🔒 no matter what colour is requested.

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