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Tweet Emoji 4 Pizza: #Epitome of #Convenience

posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:42PM   
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]

• Re:Unicode oddities (and fool's errands) (Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Friday May 15 2015, @08:15AM

  by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday May 15 2015, @08:15AM (#183276) Homepage

  The thing is that this is the same ooooh-shiny moment that hit windows 3.0 users back in the early 90s when they discovered clip-art libraries. (And suddenly every presentation publication was awash with clipart). And then those libraries faded from use as new ones with higher resolutions, different formats, and greater colour depth came along. Are people who appear to be in charge of international standards bodies too young and ignorant to remember that.
  
  One thing that particularly annoys me is that so many of the example renderings are completely unrelated to each other, and unrelated to the textual description of the character. Another thing is that I do not consider "Blue $X" and "Red $X" to be different characters any more than I consider "$X at size 9 pica" and "$X at size 24 pica" to be different characters. (Which is not at all.)
  
  Thinking about it, the oooh-shiny problem even predates Win 3.0 and clipart. This is just the problem with fonts, claris draw, and party invitations made on Macs in the 80s. Every one had to have 20 fonts and swirls of baloons, hearts, bubbles, and stars.
  
  This is why my computer has very little more than xterms running on it, and I still use w3m as a browser. You can keep the modern crap, there's more noise than signal in it.

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