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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 TheRaven on Friday May 15 2015, @08:40AM
The problem is not input, it's storage. Representing the 26 characters in the Roman alphabet is easy: you need 26 numbers, double that if you want upper and lower cases, and add a dozen or so if you want accents. That's it. You can then represent any word, because words are created combining letters. The designers of your computer, text editor, and fonts don't have to know anything about the words that you're going to write, they just give you the building blocks.
With Chinese, if you want to create a new word then you either need to combine existing ideographs (which sometimes works), or create a new one. If you create a new one, then you need to wait for a new version of the unicode standard to define a codepoint for it, then you need to wait for fonts to catch up. A few new Chinese glyphs are created each year and so this is a constant source of pain for people writing in Chinese.
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