Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji

Re:Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji by userbinator on Sunday November 05, 2017 @12:44PM (#15630554)

Maybe the Unicode consortium made a mistake by specifying them as bright yellow, which people now associate strongly with the Simpsons, where white people are represented as bright saturated yellow.

Those who aren't as familiar with the Simpsons would probably associate yellow with Asian --- which sort of makes sense due to them originally being Japanese.

Coloured emoji don't make much sense to me either --- they are text like any other, and should thus be represented with the same colour as the text.

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Re:Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji by bearbearbear on Sunday November 05, 2017 @02:19PM (#15631038)

Why would you consider yellow to be asian?

Asians aren't yellow...

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Re:Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji by userbinator on Sunday November 05, 2017 @07:12PM (#15632589)

Neither do white people look pure white, nor are blacks actually black...

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Re:Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji by bearbearbear on Monday November 06, 2017 @11:21AM (#15636491)

True, however, Asians aren't even close to yellow.

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Re:Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji by smsm42 on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:00PM (#15674579)

These terms usually have long and weird history and often do not base on any actual observation but on layers of theory that for modern eye would justifiably appear completely bonkers. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_race_concepts Of course, people using these terms now often have no idea where they come from.

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