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Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by amelius on Friday January 12, 2018 @03:49AM (#16131438)
I'm missing two smiley icons:

-big hypocritical smile

-not impressed

And I'm missing the option to create and send my own emoticons as SVG.

Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by blauditore on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:05AM (#16131499)
For the "not impressed" one, the unamused one comes pretty close: https://emojipedia.org/unamused-face/
Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by bschne on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:11AM (#16131519)
You should put together a request to the unicode consortium - http://unicode.org/emoji/selection.html
Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by perkee on Friday January 12, 2018 @10:55AM (#16133786)
There is a good 99% Invisible episode about adding "Person in the lotus position" and "person with headscarf" if you'd like to know more about the process. The reporter only wanted to document the process but ended up submitting a proposal to the Unicode consortium for "Person in the Lotus Position."

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/person-lotus-position...

Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by amckenna on Friday January 12, 2018 @07:21PM (#16137471)
On a related note here is a proposal for a recent update to the animal emoji set. It's interesting to see the factors they consider when choosing whether or not to integrate a new emoji. I didn't know that much thought went into what they chose.
Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by oblio on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:15AM (#16131539)
I basically want all the old Yahoo Messenger smileys, updated for higher resolution displays: https://usefulshortcuts.com/yahoo-messenger/smileys-emoticon...

We have a billion emojis yet we're missing some of the basic ones...

Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by mixmastamyk on Friday January 12, 2018 @11:42AM (#16134185)
Those were great, the hug for example is so much better.
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Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by bbarn on Friday January 12, 2018 @09:25AM (#16132980)
Actually, you don't. See the bit on "zero width joiners" in this article. https://blog.emojipedia.org/fun-emoji-hacks/ That's how skin tone and gender are applied in many cases.
Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by amckenna on Friday January 12, 2018 @07:17PM (#16137452)
For not impressed I use one of these four:

- https://emojipedia.org/neutral-face/

- https://emojipedia.org/expressionless-face/

- https://emojipedia.org/unamused-face/

- https://emojipedia.org/face-with-one-eyebrow-raised/

For hypocritical smile I use this one:

- https://emojipedia.org/grimacing-face/

Obviously context shapes how these emojis are interpreted, but I find they hit the mark for those two expressions.

Re:The Making of Apple’s Emoji by amelius on Saturday January 13, 2018 @05:59AM (#16139086)
Scroll down, and look how your choice for hypocritical smile is drawn on Messenger or LG. Not a hypocritical smile at all.