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I feel like http://emojipedia.org/ is a better website with more information. I've been regularly using it since Emoji have become a thing. It gives more context about the meaning of symbols, is easier to search the other way, and also shows how the image appears on various different platforms.
It still doesn't really tell you what it means, just the name/annotation.
They can mean different things based on what set of renderings you're using for the same emoji... good writeup here https://eev.ee/blog/2016/04/12/apple-did-not-invent-emoji/
Everyone would be happier if they were embedded images; that's what we all want. They're shoehorned into unicode instead because that makes it technically easier to send them in text messages, not because they're textual objects.
I feel like http://emojipedia.org/ is a better website with more information. I've been regularly using it since Emoji have become a thing. It gives more context about the meaning of symbols, is easier to search the other way, and also shows how the image appears on various different platforms.
Emojipedia doesn't say anything about alternative meanings for the peach or eggplant emojis. I need something for more cultural meanings, too.
> Also Known as Butt Emoji
http://emojipedia.org/aubergine/
> Also Known as Phallic Emoji
For one thing, you can look up spelling in a dictionary. How do you look up a pictogram?
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They can mean different things based on what set of renderings you're using for the same emoji... good writeup here https://eev.ee/blog/2016/04/12/apple-did-not-invent-emoji/
That essay has a good grasp of why we want unicode, but completely missed the point of why we want emoticons. If I send an image to someone, I don't want it to be rendered in an unpredictable way based on their unknown system and font choices. I need to know that they see what I intended to send. Everyone would be happier if they were embedded images; that's what we all want. They're shoehorned into unicode instead b…
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That essay has a good grasp of why we want unicode, but completely missed the point of why we want emoticons. If I send an image to someone, I don't want it to be rendered in an unpredictable way based on their unknown system and font choices. I need to know that they see what I intended to send. Everyone would be happier if they were embedded images; that's what we all want. They're shoehorned into unicode instead b…
Technically, you don't know your text will render the same on someone else's device. For all you know, they could have their system font set to Wingdings.
If I send a facial expression, I need to know what I'm sending. Those do not have defined equivalence classes.
I wish this went deeper. Emoji are like the symbols on the alethiometer.