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Tweet Emoji 4 Pizza: #Epitome of #Convenience

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

takyon writes:

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: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:19PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:19PM (#183035) Journal

    OK, found the information on the Wikipedia page: I had to install ttf-ancient-fonts. I didn't know that Pizza slices and guns were ancient ☺

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  • (Score: 1) by Refugee from beyond on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:58PM

    by Refugee from beyond (2699) on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:58PM (#183054)

    It's ancient because Symbola's version is outdated in that package. At least that is the case for Debian 😒

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684496 [debian.org]

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    • (Score: 2) by fnj on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:36PM

      by fnj (1654) on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:36PM (#183108)

      Thank parent and grandparent. Arch linux; no joy in chrome, firefox, opera, or palemoon until I pacman installed community/ttf-symbola. I also changed encoding from Western (ISO8859-1) to UTF-8, duh.

      Konqueror locked up :-( KDE5 go straight to hell and burn there.

      community/ttf-symbola: "Font for unicode symbols (part of Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts)."

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:11PM (#183061)

    well, you must realize that there were guns and pizza-s before the interweb. that's like... almost as old as parents!