The Making of Apple’s Emoji

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...

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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.

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