The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it

Re:The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not ... by kalleboo on Sunday January 21, 2018 @09:58AM (#16198253)

An interesting thing is that since the only specific landmarks in the SoftBank emoji that Apple originally adopted were the Statue of Liberty, Moai, Tokyo Tower and the Shibuya 109 department store; reasonably the only reason the Statue of Liberty is encoded in Unicode Emoji is due to this replica in Odaiba.

The Moai has a replica at Shibuya Station (and even now if you type in "しぶや" into an iPhone it will suggest the Moai emoji) https://emojipedia.org/moyai/

Shibuya 109 never made it into Unicode since it's a commercial building https://emojipedia.org/shibuya/

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Re:The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not ... by lloeki on Monday January 22, 2018 @03:17AM (#16202757)

At the very beginning it was the original sister one, not a replica:

> The French Statue of Liberty from the Île aux Cygnes came to Odaiba, Tokyo, from April 1998 to May 1999 in commemoration of "The French year in Japan". Because of its popularity, in 2000 a replica of the French Statue of Liberty was erected at the same place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicas_of_the_Statue_of_Libe...

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