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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by bombcar on Friday October 18, 2024 @06:29AM (#41878009)
We already have combining characters (for example you can make emojis with various skin shades) and they should enable “alternates” for other emojis.

Let there be ten thousand cat breed emojis via combining characters!

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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by rsynnott on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:39AM (#41878433)
This is, IIRC, how the lime works; according to the Unicode consortium, a lime is a green lemon.

(It would be much more fun if they'd just represented them as citrus hybrids with ZWJs.)

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Re:Unicode uses elephants as baseline comparison of cultural... by zahlman on Saturday October 19, 2024 @01:51PM (#41889333)
To be fair, the genetics of all the various citrus species are pretty wild (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taxonomy).
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