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posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the emoji-over-emoticon dept.

You can now tweet a 🍕 emoji to Domino's in order to initiate a pizza transaction.

Emoji use differs by country. "Canadians lead the charge in their use of money, violence, sports-related, raunchy, and even the poop emoji," says SwiftKey's chief marketing officer, Joe Braidwood.

Americans are second behind Canada in their love of violent emojis, such as guns.

But one thing Americans also really, really love is pizza.

"Pizza was one of the most frequently used [emojis] in the U.S., as well as the chicken drumstick ... and I think it shows you that, versus other nations, you guys have particular food habits," Braidwood says.

Be careful with 🔫s and 🍆.

Emoji In the Unicode standard at Wikipedia.
Draft Emoji Data at the Unicode Consortium.

💩/10.

[ED NOTE: The &#####; markup for these characters are legit. Are you able to see them, or are you seeing unknown character boxes? What font are you using? -LaminatorX]

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:11PM (#182930)

    can't see 'em : (
    Jellybean cannot see the unicode in subject line : )

  • (Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:29PM

    by SubiculumHammer (5191) on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:29PM (#182933)

    Firefox on Android Kitkat/Cyangenomod renders these all fine.

  • (Score: 1) by Kymation on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:40PM

    by Kymation (1047) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:40PM (#182984)

    I can see the characters in the subject line, but none of the ones in TFA. Weird.

    Firefox 38 using FreeSans on Linux.

    • (Score: 2) by bart9h on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:39PM

      by bart9h (767) on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:39PM (#183045)

      me too. FF37, serif font.

    • (Score: 2) by dast on Friday May 15 2015, @08:03PM

      by dast (1633) on Friday May 15 2015, @08:03PM (#183466)

      Ditto this, with FF 38 on Ubuntu 14.04.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by dast on Friday May 15 2015, @08:18PM

        by dast (1633) on Friday May 15 2015, @08:18PM (#183471)

        Solved by installing ttf-ancient-fonts. Now I can see the emoji in the article. Prior to that the only ones I could see were in the subject line on these comments.