New Emoji Are Being Delayed Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic (mashable.com) 61
One unexpected effect of the coronavirus pandemic has to do with the colorful little pictograms we use on our phones and computers to express, well, pretty much everything: emoji. From a report: According to the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit which takes care of the Unicode Standard -- a widely-used standard for character encoding on computers and phones -- the release of Unicode 14.0 has been postponed by six months. "Under the current circumstances we've heard that our contributors have a lot on their plates at the moment and decided it was in the best interests of our volunteers and the organizations that depend on the standard to push out our release date," Mark Davis, President of the Unicode Consortium, said in a statement. Unicode 14.0 was supposed to be released in March 2021, but that has been moved six months into the future, to September 2021. Since it takes a while for developers to incorporate new emoji into phones -- typically eight months or so, according to the Consortium -- this means we won't get any new emoji until well into 2022.
Oh noez! Not our emojis! (Score:5, Insightful)
How ever shall we cope?
Light news day today?
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Light news day today?
'Light intellects' at the controls.
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"At least they didn't say we're out of coffee!"
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Light news day today?
It's good to have a story with good news for a change. Would you prefer we threw another Trump story on the front page instead?
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How ever shall we cope?
Light news day today?
~Chas
LITERACY
is a profound activity requiring composition.
Until one addresses their knowledge and familiarity with a topic to organize and give expression to furthering, iterating, or merely repeating ideas, what does one really know?
See Bloom's Taxonomy
Additionally, emoji characters are profound signal to glean an aggregate measure of an app-captive population's "feels" for an evolving catalog of category of trending consumer beliefs that informs a potential to purchase any and every thing.
How do you thi
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If you say so.
I've always found emojis to be sub-literate.
Blame (Score:2)
Blame it on the virus. Blame it on the pandemic. Milk it for a year, or two, maybe even three. Blame it on the virus.
Silver lining (Score:5, Funny)
See, something good was bound to come out of this pandemic.
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Wow! I guess I had COVID-19 all wrong!
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This is in addition to the disappearance of the robocall, no more annoyming spam callers, I guess "rip off centers" are not an essential service.
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I'm not getting any junk mail in the snail mail anymore. Add in the lack of people driving and flying plus the lack of junk people aren't buying (even if they have money) the Coronavirus is doing wonders for the environmental movement. Too bad it's at such a high cost.
Maybe some of these behaviours will stick with some people when things start to go back to the way things were before. There was always a hesitancy about moving people to work from home, mostly from managers that wanted to keep a close eye on
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Re: Silver lining (Score:1)
Well, they got dolphins in the canals of Venice again, and friends of mine had not one, bit two deer in their garden in Germany. (That never happened before,m since their grandparents were born.)
Re: Silver lining (Score:2)
Fake news.
At least the dolphins story is. I don't claim your German deer is fake.
Re: Silver lining (Score:2)
OH NOES (Score:5, Funny)
"...this means we won't get any new emoji until well into 2022."
OH MY GOD, this is tragic news indeed. It makes this whole pandemic thing look like a minor boo-boo.
When historians look back at the devastation caused by COVID-19, one of the key things they will undoubtedly highlight will be the delay in getting new emojis.
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Re: OH NOES (Score:2)
I think they already got that, from there being emoji strata. :)
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Archaeologists will notice a gap in the emoji strata and deduce that there was a great catastrophe.
I'm not sure when and I'm not sure how, but I swear by all that's holy that I will use the term "emoji strata" at some point in the near future.
Maybe I'll work it into my usual bullshit or word-salad at the next staff meeting I'm forced to go to, but one way or another I'm going to use this phrase!
I miss the days... (Score:3)
... when people would actually be creative with ASCII-style emojis.
I'd like an option not only to not display graphic emoji's, but to inform the person at the other end that I won't receive them as they pull up the damn things on their picker.
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They still do that in Japan.
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In Japan, they get really creative with non-ASCII text characters, too; they call it "kaomoji". Which of course I can't replicate here thanks to Slashdot's broken Unicode support.
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Which of course I can't replicate here thanks to Slashdot's broken Unicode support.
Its a feature, not a bug.
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Which of course I can't replicate here thanks to Slashdot's broken Unicode support.
Its a feature, not a bug.
would be nice to have currency symbols other than dollar though
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-,_(8/)_,-
Non-UTF-8 shruggies just aren't the same, man.
I merely reply (Score:2)
Re: I miss the days... (Score:1)
And I wish peoe would still *actually* smile at you. Not sit right next to you, but send you a big grin via a text, while sitting there completely emotionless...
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I'm a furry, so I get to use the avian ones. :> and /:>.
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^v^
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They would be too big. I prefer emoticons. :P
Oh Noes!!!! No new emoji???? (Score:2)
Tell me again how this is a bad thing?
And we love people that can't think beyond (Score:1)
their own noses, completely unable to see anything but the most direct, literally in-your-face consequences.
Like what this says for the mindset of society and what it leads to.
But I guess it won't make any difference to you, given that you're part of the epicenter of the idiocacy you're already living in.
Where's the FLAMINGO? (Score:3)
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Here it is > ðY¦©. I'm really really sure slashdot will handle it no problem but just in case: https://emojipedia.org/flaming... [emojipedia.org]
Our Conversion to Modern Hieroglyphics Is Stalled (Score:2)
Good (Score:2)
Precisely. (Score:1)
Why not just have a unique sticker URI registry, and send URIs?
That would functionally be completely equivalent.
And only so the picures aren't constantly re-transferred and even re-compressed through the Internet.
Signal and Telegram have something like that, but don't offer interspersing them with text. (Because we'd go down the route to HTML with that.)
Just do it already! (Score:1)
Go all the way, and turn Unicode into a complete language of visual primitives, like Chinese writing... with all the image editing primitives aswell.
I mean once you're past the smiling turd emoji, noting matters anymore anyway.
P.S.: The purpose of emojis was ... (Score:1)
... to communicate emotions. For Japanese people.
So the sane path would have been, to come up with a way to write emotions that accompany the alphabetic words written with alphabetic emotion-words too. Sort of like a second track on a theme park attraction cinema projector, for controlling special effects.
"Hahaha" could be an example of such an emotion word.
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Never in my life (Score:2)
"colorful little pictograms we use on our phones and computers"
Never used one in my life, so I suspect that is the Royal We, or perhaps it is descriptive of the members of a class, such as twitter twats.
Inventing emoji? They've lost their purpose (Score:3)
How much memory do the Unicode people... (Score:2)
Bending the curve (Score:2)
It'd be lovely if there were some apocalypse that would lead us to need to get rid of all emoji.
Emoji 14 should mean... (Score:3)
Seriously, I understand a smiley face, a frowning face, a thumbs-up, a middle-finger-up, a heart shape, and maybe a few more. But with hundreds of emoji, most of which are not iconic, we're back to needing to establish common language to assign to them. Might as well use words.
This isn't get-off-my-damned-lawn... I accept that there's some use in icons to express emotion. But there's no can-of-soup emotion. Sorry, no.
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Emojis are the logical step on our transition to the world that Cyberpunk predicted, where most people are eventually illiterate again because any written communication can be done by pictograms.
It's actually amazing that they managed to predict that in the 80s.
Maybe they should take a longer break (Score:1)
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SHUT IT DOWN NOW (Score:2)
No more new emojis? It's over
That's terrible (Score:1)
Art from home (Score:1)
So this is how the world ends... (Score:2)
Shovel-Emoji? (Score:2)
Will there finally be an emoji for a basic tool like a shovel?