| ▲ | yorwba 3 days ago |
| The process is described here: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#process The list of past proposals is here: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html Most have been declined. |
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| ▲ | Palomides 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| kinda mad guillotine got rejected, it concisely expresses a very popular sentiment |
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| ▲ | carrozo 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | oh that was me who wrote the proposal for it. https://www.carrozo.com/guillotine-emoji | | | |
| ▲ | harwoodr 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm more disappointed that "Dumpster Fire" hasn't made the grade four times. | | |
| ▲ | jowea 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Would controversial emojis even get widespread support? Look at what happened to gun emoji. | | |
| ▲ | account42 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Which is really the root problem with emojis: they're a top down definition of what concepts you are allowed to communicate. | | |
| ▲ | squigz 2 days ago | parent [-] | | If you're only allowed to communicate in emojis, I guess? Other than that I'm not sure what bearing emojis have on what I'm allowed to talk about. |
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| ▲ | throw0101d 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Dumpster fire" is a idiomatic phrase in English/US, so may not be universal enough. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_fire | | |
| ▲ | harwoodr 3 days ago | parent [-] | | I'm not an American... but "bin fire" seems to be a thing too. |
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| ▲ | bell-cot 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | "Gun", "knife", and a fair number other emoji's are nerfed. Perhaps too much for many HNers. But not nearly enough for anyone who's had a stalker. | | |
| ▲ | shmeeed 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Do you assume that a stalker would be deterred by the lack of a knife emoji? I can't seem to follow the logic here. | |
| ▲ | account42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ah yes, because outlawing wrongspeak prevents people from communicating those concepts. People like you are giant eggplant emojis. | | |
| ▲ | bell-cot 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Preventing people from "communicating those concepts" is your strawman, not the goal of the Unicode org. Regardless of whatever lip service they might give to "This little thing, plus Santa's naughty list, will magically make all the children nice" fantasies. They are a big org, doing normal big org things, and trying to dodge the Bad PR spotlight. But glancing at your karma - are you contributing to a platform (HN) which outlaws wrongspeak, when you should start truly living your values? | | |
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| ▲ | anigbrowl 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Ugh, I really don't care for their selection process. Emoji should be open source even though that means there will be nazi emoji and porn emoji, it should be up to the user which ones they use. The selection committee seems like a very arbitrary group and many of their decisions seem equally arbitrary. |
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| ▲ | rkomorn 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I don't know if you've ever used even remotely popular slack instances, but I'd say the flood of new reactions people are constantly adding on the slack instances (including corporate ones) I've been on is not something I'd want to see repeated for emojis. | | |
| ▲ | Freak_NL 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Useful feature though, but just for limited audiences (not just Slack of course, Mattermost does this too). We have a grammar Nazi flag, a rubber duck, and an animated dancing banana. | | |
| ▲ | rkomorn 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I like it! And I've been guilty of adding my own. But yes, limited audiences. Exactly that. | |
| ▲ | BeFlatXIII 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is the Grammar Nazi flag the Grammarly logo but with a swastika instead of the G? | | |
| ▲ | Freak_NL 2 days ago | parent [-] | | This one is a stylised black square 'G' rotate 45° on a white circle in a red field. Definitely off-colour dev humour for internal use; but that has its place. |
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| ▲ | jamilton 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | At that point just have a messaging standard that allows in-line small images. | | |
| ▲ | anigbrowl a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, basically. I'm thinking of something like stickers on messaging apps but without the oversized graphics. | |
| ▲ | account42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's only a matter of time until Unicode adopts embedded SVG. |
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| ▲ | throw0101d 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | See Private Use Area perhaps: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas On your private site with your private client you can stuff whatever symbols you want for any particular code point I guess (§ Vendor use). | |
| ▲ | lifthrasiir 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | This has been already brought up multiple times with multiple different proposals, all of which were unsatisfactory to this date. |
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| ▲ | bigstrat2003 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| They should all have been declined. Emojis are not text and have no place in a text encoding standard. |
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| ▲ | Spivak 3 days ago | parent [-] | | :) | | |
| ▲ | bombcar 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | 𓂺 Even if you got rid of emojis, people would find a way. Even on Hacker News. | |
| ▲ | account42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | The big difference between text emoticons and emojis is that emoticons are not defined by a committee. | | |
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