We are literally reinventing Chinese/Japanese/et all :)
Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bank would be useful for general learning. i.e. when I went to the site just now, I didn't have a specific emoji that I needed to identify, but if there had been a 'bank of emojis' I probably would have wasted a few minutes of my day reading about what they mean...because I frequently have no idea what emojis mean... And by wasted I mean I wouldn't have been working. Not a jab at your project :)
I see - I just added links to lists of most emojis to the header: http://whatmoji.com/ I hope this helps you waste a few minutes! :)
I'm not really up on how text rendering works; what's it mean if I can see some of those, but not others? e.g. I have Rocket but not Helicopter; not Steam Locomotive but Railway Car and High-Speed Train; Taxi and Automobile but not their Oncoming variants; Toilet, Water Closet, and Bath but not Shower.
Is there something I need to install, or something? I'm on Win7 with up-to-date Chrome and Vivaldi, and they're both the same way.
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#14whatmoji.com/[the emoji here]
would have have been cool.
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#15This looks very similar to http://emojipedia.org/
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#16I ran into this problem in a side project recently and made a package to programmatically fix it: https://github.com/NarroApp/translate-emoji
Nice work! You could even go further using algorithms like Sense2Vec ( https://spacy.io/demos/sense2vec?%3B%29|NOUN ). They are able to figure out similarities between emojis and between emojis and words.
Instagram team did it:
http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/117889701472/em...
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#17It seems to permanently (?) store all of the input text. Why?
http://whatmoji.com/?i=da510f5876a15885fa89de8abe731d3c
EDIT: OK, so it stores only the emojis. The actual text is removed.
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#18I installed the Debian package "unicode", which will accept an emoji as an argument and print the Unicode description.
It also searches the descriptions, if given a word as an argument.
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#19Here the ones I thought were for sex positions are astrological symbols.
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#20It seems to permanently (?) store all of the input text. Why? http://whatmoji.com/?i=da510f5876a15885fa89de8abe731d3c EDIT: OK, so it stores only the emojis. The actual text is removed.
Yes, it stores the list of emojis so that you can link to it. The text is never stored.
Are you concerned this might be a privacy issue? I could change it to only store searches on demand.