Re:2015: The Year of Emoji Diversity
by J_Darnley on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @05:21PM
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WTF? When a character is rendered onto a bitmap it is either there or not. Where the heck does colour come from? (Aside from AA, Unicode doesn't define that anyway.) Why on earth is Unicode putting a picture into its encoding?
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Re:2015: The Year of Emoji Diversity
by matthewmacleod on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @05:34PM
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It's not – it's adding emoji modifier characters, much like there are already modifiers for adding accents to letters. These characters act to alter existing emoji – in this case, specifying the skin tone.
The goal is to add additional semantic information to an emoji character. It's an interesting idea.