• Kairos@lemmy.today
    1·
    3 months 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.

    • forestbeasts@pawb.social
      1·
      3 months ago
      ┌────┬─────────────────┬────┐
│ 🐺 │ Unicode is fun! │ ✨ │
├────┴─────────────────┴────┤
│ Never heard of ASCII art? │
└────────────────┬──────────┤
                 │ -- Frost │
                 └──────────┘
    • Cellari@lemmy.world
      0·
      3 months 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.