• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    How does something like that happen? Did google make a machine to interpret the b&w representations? Surely a person would have read the text “yellow” at some point in the process.

  • username_1@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Because Unicode supposed to be a universal way for forming letters, not cater to stupid kids. Throw out that emoji shit out of Unicode!

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      3 days ago
      ┌────┬─────────────────┬────┐
      │ 🐺 │ Unicode is fun! │ ✨ │
      ├────┴─────────────────┴────┤
      │ Never heard of ASCII art? │
      └────────────────┬──────────┤
                       │ -- Frost │
                       └──────────┘
      
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      2 days ago

      I remembered something from years ago. Maybe 20 years or more. I sent a message to my friend, either through MSN or SMS, and the emojis I sent were different ones on the receiving end. Either it was the case for a different language settings or a different phone manufacturer or both.

      Anyway, if we had unicode back then it would not have happened. Really a minor story though, I would not make importance of it.

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        2 days ago

        It is still the case to some extent: the look of emojis is controlled by the font, not the Unicode per se. So the mountain pictogram in some font is a colorful image of the mountain, but on other font it is just a triangle.