I think emoji is wonderful for widespread unicode support. It combats ossificati... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		MayeulC on March 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: String length functions for single emoji character... I think emoji is wonderful for widespread unicode support. It combats ossification. It is also a nice carrot to incite users to install updates. However, I don't like the rabbit hole it started to go into with gendered and colored emojis. There's never going to be enough. I wish we had stuck to color-neutral and gender-neutral, like original smileys :) I find it also conveys too much meaning. I am generally not interested in knowing a person's gender or ethnic group when discussing over text... but I digress.

samatman on March 26, 2021 [–]

I've said this before, but not here:

Eventually, Unicode will allow you to combine flag modifiers with human emojis. So you can have a black South Korean man facepalming.

This will trigger a war which ends industrial civilization, and is the leading candidate for the Great Filter.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact