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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.
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]
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:19PM
They are more efficient for the end-user looking for copyrighted material, because it's hard to censor all the permutations of characters which will lead you to what you're looking for. The Chinese routinely use the wrong character (sounding close) to defeat simple google-and-DMCA techniques.
It's an elaborated version of putting a 1 for an i, with a whole lot more combinations available, many of which have real meanings you can't abruptly censor.
The Great Firewall knows how to handle a lot of these to protect the powerful in China (probably by having people dynamically entering the substitutions as they appear online), but the US content providers are far behind. It takes about 2 minutes to find just about anything within 24 hours of initial broadcast, original English version with added subtitles.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:27PM
But the Chinese government are mainly interested in suppressing free political ideas while the American corporations is more interested in suppressing copyrighted bits?
But i get your idea.
B3tt3r t0 b3 @ h@ck3r w1th sk1llz th@n b3ing squ@r3. ;-)
(sorry for all emoji fans that can't dechiper the last sequence.. ;-) )