The keyboard on my previous phone, a z3, offered emoticons as part of suggestions while typing.
That was a nifty feature for a stock keyboard.
Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
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Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#72The keyboard on my previous phone, a z3, offered emoticons as part of suggestions while typing. That was a nifty feature for a stock keyboard.
Google Keyboard just started doing that to me, and I can't figure out how to turn it off...
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#73I believe emoji is designed to be expressive, if we need to look it up in a emoji dictionary ,then emoji goes wrong. The fact is that everybody wants to add their favourite emoji, but more emoji added more confusion it will be make. Just imagine we lookup an emoji before we send to others, and the receiver has to look it up in a dictionary to know what the sender want to express. Why not just using the normal words w…
>Why not just using the normal words we already know very well
A persons answer to that can be "I don't know. I think we should just use the normal words we already know very well" yet still have to life in the current reality of many people using emojis. Hence OP's service.
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#74I believe an emoji dictionary is only helpful if emoji senders universally rely and agree upon its definitions.
I find myself confused by emojis from time to time, and for me the confusion doesn't stem from misunderstanding the emoji's expression, it stems from what the emoji means within the context of the conversation and my relationship with the sender.
Emojis can lessen ambiguity when they're used to complement a message or communicate tone. I believe they increase ambiguity, however, when they're used to replace words altogether.
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#76That this website exists probably says enough. I've never heard anyone ask questions about smileys like MSN or Skype had/have, just those "emoji"s are often ambiguous and usually too small to see properly from a distance.
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#77Ah, but what does 🈚️ mean? :)
WhatMoji doesn't recognize it; Emojipedia doesn't either; and Google returns zero results. Some of the original imported Softbank characters are arcane. These are the ones I want to look up—not because the meaning is vaguely between two possible semantic clusters, but because I literally have no idea how to even describe the character to search for it.
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#78Ah, but what does 🈚️ mean? :) WhatMoji doesn't recognize it; Emojipedia doesn't either; and Google returns zero results. Some of the original imported Softbank characters are arcane . These are the ones I want to look up—not because the meaning is vaguely between two possible semantic clusters, but because I literally have no idea how to even describe the character to search for it.
Maybe that's just a Chinese character? It looks like the character for "nothing" (無) enclosed in a box.
Part of the problem is that the character you pasted is made up of two code points (I don't know if I have the terminology right here):
http://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%F0%9F%88%9A%...
It's both the character plus a "variation selector".:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_(Unicode_b...
If you search for the character by itself ( 🈚 ) you get results on google:
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#79I like it. It's simple & elegant and does exactly what it promises to do. :)
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#80I expected this to be the solution for my broken Linux font experience. In Linux there is no support for Emoji and every time someone uses them in a website to display so semi-important idea I get frustrated because the only thing I see is a blank character or a rectangular border. I thought this service was something like "discover what this non-supported character actually is" more than "discover what is the meanin…
Hi, I made those color SVGinOT emoji fonts.
There are four methods for implementing (multi)color in OpenType fonts:
* Apple's SBIX table - Embedded bitmaps, non-standard, used on OS X.
* Google's CBLC+CBDT - Embedded bitmaps, part of OpenType spec, used on Android.
* Microsoft's COLR+CPAL - Colored glyphs, part of OpenType spec, used in Windows.
* Adobe/Mozilla/W3C's SVG+CPAL - SVG in OpenType (SVGinOT), part of OpenType spec, works in Firefox/Thunderbird.
I chose to use SVGinOT because it is the only out-of-the-box option for color font support on Linux right now. I plan to make both CBLC+CBDT and SBIX versions in the future.
> I wish there was native support for this trend in Linux
There is an unmaintained patch for Cairo to support Google's bitmap CBDT+CBLC OpenType format.[1] It needs to be updated and completed for "official" Linux support.[2] Behdad has many other things to do, so please do not open an issue against that fork. Long term, I expect support for both CBDT+CBLC and SVGinOT.
> I wonder how difficult would be to copy all those images from the Apple font and create a custom TTF so I can get the fancy colored symbols in my computer.
It is possible to create a CBDT/CBLC version of the Apple Color Emoji font, but the font is, as you suspected, unlicensed[3].
[1]: https://github.com/behdad/cairo/tree/color-emoji
[2]: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/issues/36
[3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22337295/license-of-apple...