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Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji

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Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji

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The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs -- Range: 1F300–1F5FF

http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-7.0/U70-1F300.pdf

Chart Page 4 at Codepoint 0x1f595

Description on Page 14: Hand symbols 1F595 REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED

https://codepoints.net/U+1F595 http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f595/index.htm

Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji

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Post by nothrabannosir »

robbrown451 wrote: post #3

I'm really trying to see this as a positive. Sorry, but I just can't do it.

No need. The Unicode Consortium is not a therapeutic institution. It's about humans and their language, not about happiness.

The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation devoted to developing, maintaining, and promoting software internationalization standards and data, particularly the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and standards. The Unicode Consortium actively develops standards in the area of internationalization including defining the behavior and relationships between Unicode characters.

- http://www.unicode.org/consortium/consort.html

Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji

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cnvogel wrote: post #4

The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs -- Range: 1F300–1F5FF http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-7.0/U70-1F300.pdf Chart Page 4 at Codepoint 0x1f595 Description on Page 14: Hand symbols 1F595 REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED https://codepoints.net/U+1F595 http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f595/index.htm

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Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji

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Post by Pyxl101 »

nothrabannosir wrote: post #6
robbrown451 wrote: post #3

I'm really trying to see this as a positive. Sorry, but I just can't do it.

No need. The Unicode Consortium is not a therapeutic institution. It's about humans and their language, not about happiness. The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation devoted to developing, maintaining, and promoting software internationalization standards and data, particularly the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and standards. The Unicode Consort…

The primary use of this icon will most likely be friends joking with each other. I don't see why this is a bad thing.

Friend A:

Friend B:

As I write this, it reminds me a bit of http://bash.org/?23396

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