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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay4kb/guillotine-emoji-unicode
When you want to express your complete rage at the incompetence of leadership over text, in a way that says "I would like to see their heads removed at the neck with a large falling blade and rolled into little baskets" but less literal and more succinct, an emoji would help a lot.
Sadly, there is no guillotine emoji, despite "guillotine them" being the ruling sentiment of the pissed-off proletariat for the last... well, probably many years, but more lately, as tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests around the world.
Lisbon-based artist Carrozo is lobbying the Unicode Consortium to include a guillotine in its next emoji update, and has sent an application outlining why the people need the 18th century execution machine in their emoji lexicon.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @03:45AM (14 children)
Emoji should not exist. They are not glyphs in any real written language. The Unicode Consortium has betrayed its purpose by including emoji in Unicode.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:04AM
They are glyphs in Unicode. I suppose that real language isn't a written language in a technical sense.
As to betraying its purpose, that's been the MO of many such organizations for a long time.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bart9h on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:14AM (7 children)
What about Japanese, Chinese, and other written languages where the symbols are pretty much like drawings?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:21AM (6 children)
They may be "pretty much like drawings", but they are in fact writing glyphs in a real written language. Emoji are not.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:31AM (4 children)
Not... yet. 😎
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:34AM (3 children)
Yeah, I know. 💩
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Tuesday July 21 2020, @04:57AM (2 children)
They certainly fulfill the purpose of a language, which is to convey ideas and information.
But I seriously doubt that a guillotine will be added, given they are already walking back from the gun emoji.
Gotta love that the left are now into making death threats too. I thought that was something that they didn't like about the right?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @05:12AM
You must have missed the asterisk. Whenever the left says "you shouldn't do such a thing," there's always a footnote saying "We should be doing it instead."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @07:59PM
Democrats aren't left. Leftist anarchists and nihilists were all about assassination and terrorism.
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Wednesday July 22 2020, @12:07PM
Actually, there are a lot of glyphs in Japanase that are actually drawings, like "people", "tree", "forest", and a lot more.
(Score: 5, Funny) by istartedi on Tuesday July 21 2020, @05:58AM (3 children)
On the one hand, as an old fart who isn't in on the indecipherable trains of images that gen-Z uses to communicate sometimes, I despise them.
On the other hand, if they weren't standardized then we'd probably have Google emoji, Apple emoji, Mozilla emoji, Microsoft Active Emoji that are being used to run unauthorized code as admin, and the interminable wait for "the year of emoji on the Linux desktop".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @05:25PM (2 children)
I see what you typed there. What generation shall exist after gen-Z?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @08:01PM
Gen2. We'll all be ricing our babies in the lab.
(Score: 2) by istartedi on Tuesday July 21 2020, @10:08PM
Gen AA, the "not included" generation.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @07:50AM
Unicode "just" has a place for those. What's so bad about it other than working interoperability? You don't *have* to make/install fonts that show anything there. I don't use most of Unicode characters, doesn't mean it's not useful to have them there. You, English-worlders, were fine with ASCII, I remember. Interoperability for everyone else was a pain in the ass.