And it could work also for emoticons. For example ":P" is hard to understand. Good idea
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Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#22whatmoji.com/[the emoji here] would have have been cool.
Cool idea, this should work now: http://whatmoji.com/
edit: Looks like HN strips emoji so I can't link to it, but you can try it out by visiting http://whatmoji.com/TEXT_HERE!
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#23It would be nice if it supported the ASCII text shortcuts like :poop: (see http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com/).
You could also make the URL route based on the ascii shortcut as well (as previously mentioned by another user).
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#24Good site.
..funny that programmers & cell phone carriers are re-inventing Chinese-style (pictorial language)
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#25Quick tip if you are on OS X: Pressing ctrl+command+space pops up an emoji bank so you can enter them in any text field. Now you don't have to hunt for emojis to put in the website.
Love the website btw!
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#26It still doesn't really tell you what it means, just the name/annotation.
True, but it does give you a hint at least. I would have never guessed that this was a shrimp for example: http://whatmoji.com/?i=b65555fbf55380ec0970a060b2457527
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You would need to have an up-to-date font that contains glyphs for these specific emoji - your computer gets an integer key (a code-point) and needs to have a scalable image in its lookup table to substitute for it. I have no idea how exactly to get a new one for Windows, sorry :-\
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#28And yes, I know I could have just looked it up in many different ways. But any programmer knows that an elaborate solution that takes a day of programming is a lot more fun than a 1-minute fix that just solves the problem at hand!
> But any programmer knows that an elaborate solution that takes a day of programming is a lot more fun than a 1-minute fix that just solves the problem at hand!
Don't put that on your CV/resumé
Re: Show HN: I couldn't figure out what an Emoji meant, so I made WhatMoji.com
#29It still doesn't really tell you what it means, just the name/annotation.
True, but it does give you a hint at least. I would have never guessed that this was a shrimp for example: http://whatmoji.com/?i=b65555fbf55380ec0970a060b2457527
Except so many of them are culturally specific, like the horn emoji on the front page has roots in postal systems (both in Japan and Europe). This page doesn't tell you that. Even this random website does a better job of giving context:
http://emojipedia.org/postal-horn/
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#30And yes, I know I could have just looked it up in many different ways. But any programmer knows that an elaborate solution that takes a day of programming is a lot more fun than a 1-minute fix that just solves the problem at hand!
> But any programmer knows that an elaborate solution that takes a day of programming is a lot more fun than a 1-minute fix that just solves the problem at hand! Don't put that on your CV/resumé
I lol'ed!