Wake me up when you can give someone a powerful electric shock via emoji. A control character, literally.
This reminds me of a bash.org quote.
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
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment makes a weak case for this special symbol need, since it uses the :) smiley rather than the "Unicode Smiley"
HN filters some Unicode. Parent post may have used an emoji that got filtered out.
It's actually lack of application support for emojis on desktop.
But mobile devices, where you really want to be efficient when typing, do have support for Unicode smileys.
So my point still stands :)
Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji
#43This is a symbol that will be used 10s of millions of times in the next few years. If not much much more. The fact it's even in discussion if it should be there is a huge free flow of speech rights issue. I'd like to think if you're on hn you see the problems around the fact this was not there years ago. I want a world were people can communicate exactly as they wish. Not by a standard, especially a standard with mor…
I don't disagree with the premise that free speech is important, but it's hard to argue that the absence of a middle-finger emoji is preventing people from being nasty to each other on the internet. This changes nothing of consequence (but I personally see no reason not to include it).
I suppose the advantage of a middle finger emoji is it can be understood across (some) language barriers, and it's more concise than a roughly equivalent written insult.
Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN filters some Unicode. Parent post may have used an emoji that got filtered out.
It's actually lack of application support for emojis on desktop. But mobile devices, where you really want to be efficient when typing, do have support for Unicode smileys. So my point still stands :)
:-) But even on a mobile device, if you used a Unicode smiley, the HN software would filter it out.
Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually lack of application support for emojis on desktop. But mobile devices, where you really want to be efficient when typing, do have support for Unicode smileys. So my point still stands :)
:-) But even on a mobile device, if you used a Unicode smiley, the HN software would filter it out.
I wonder if it's just lack of proper Unicode support or some sort of protection against Unicode shenanigans.
Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji
#46The 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
Just learned about it's neighbour at 0x1F596 ("RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS")
Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji
#47I may be a Luddite but I really prefer the old ways.. An ability to simply write FUCK YOU, or FUCK OFF is enough for me and is supported on all platforms.
Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji
#48This is a symbol that will be used 10s of millions of times in the next few years. If not much much more. The fact it's even in discussion if it should be there is a huge free flow of speech rights issue. I'd like to think if you're on hn you see the problems around the fact this was not there years ago. I want a world were people can communicate exactly as they wish. Not by a standard, especially a standard with mor…
Free speech is about what you can say, not how you can say it.
Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji
#49It's offensive, a sad commentary on humanity, and I don't mind being down voted on Hacker News for stating it openly. (Actually, if you really want to do things right, just flip me off, yes?)
Re: Finally, it will be possible to flip someone off via emoji
#50Given enough time, we may just have a modern Emoji pictograph set to rival that of the Chinese.