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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: 2) by HiThere on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:23PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 14 2015, @07:23PM (#183069) Journal

    Debian iceweasel 31.6.0
    Emoj's show as hex map chars. Default fonts.

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  • (Score: 1) by Dr Spin on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:22PM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:22PM (#183104)

    Put not your faith in Weasels- or possibly Emojis.

    I am with the guy that thinks "If you want to communicate, use ASCII, and if you dont ... why are you even here?"

    Why yes, young man, it IS my lawn! (And my ASR33 as well).

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    • (Score: 2) by fnj on Thursday May 14 2015, @09:38PM

      by fnj (1654) on Thursday May 14 2015, @09:38PM (#183133)

      I'll see your ASR33 and raise you a model 15.

  • (Score: 1) by MaximumFerry on Thursday May 14 2015, @09:51PM

    by MaximumFerry (416) on Thursday May 14 2015, @09:51PM (#183136) Journal

    Try to use Symbola font [archive.org]. Just drop the .ttf file to /usr/share/fonts. Hope it helps.