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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by bombcar on Friday October 18, 2024 @06:23AM (#41877964)
This annoys me so much - squirrel on iPhone offers you an emoji that is clearly a chipmunk.
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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by Freak_NL on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:46AM (#41878479)
Chipmunks are squirrels though. 'Squirrel' is the family name for a bunch of these rodents.

> Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail.

(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/squirrel)

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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by bombcar on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:09AM (#41879101)
I don't care who they send, prairie dogs and squirrels are different and deserve different emojis!
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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by ygra on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:48AM (#41879456)
Maybe after Han unification we also need a squirrel unification and leave this distinction to the font which is picked based on the region you're in ...

That being said, I already cannot parse many emoji and would love tooltips what they are supposed to represent in all places.

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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by bombcar on Friday October 18, 2024 @10:18AM (#41879722)
Yep, that's how I learned you can directly google an emoji and find the emojipedia page for it.
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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by yencabulator on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @11:12AM (#41925858)
Chipmunks don't have a a large bushy tail.

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

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