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Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by sigzero »

a1371 wrote: post #35
bXVsbGVy wrote: post #6

I find fascinating that many of those were rejected, but "Pregnant man" and male bride were approved. https://emojipedia.org/pregnant-man/ https://emojiguide.com/people-body/man-with-veil/

Look up proposal L2/20-190. They provide a number of good reasons for pregnant man. To summarize: - It avoids gender stereotyping of men in Parenthood. - couples say "we are pregnant". The term pregnant is culturally used for men too as their search shows. - the emoji is not just for pregnancy, it is also for feeling bloated, full, and hungry. I sometimes used this emoji for saying that I'm expecting something. My pa…

Except all of those things is NOT what the actual emoji conveys.

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by mcdonje »

tossaway0 wrote: post #25
dahfizz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's less of an issue with menus as Unicode. We only have ~1 million Unicode codepoints in total. Wasting one for ever local flag would be a mistake.

I didn't know that. That said, considering that adopting Unicode was a decision in and of itself, would expanding that space really be such a burden? I'm also now surprised to see that Wales and Scotland get a flag but Northern Ireland does not. Aren't they on the same standing? I always thought it followed UN membership but that Wales and Scotland got an exception. I know Palestine and Kosovo have emojis also. Are t…

>would expanding that space really be such a burden?

It would require dropping UTF-16, which is the limiting factor. That, or defining planes that aren't available to all encodings. Don't hold your breath.

I don't know who is using UTF-16 or UTF-32. It seems like most of the world has adopted UTF-8. So, maybe one day UTF-16 and UTF-32 will be dropped and more planes will be defined. That's a big maybe. If it happens at all, it's decades away. There are no conversations to do so that I'm aware of.

There are currently 10 planes that are completely unassigned, and there are no current proposals to put anything on them. The Unicode Consortium is very deliberate. Those planes will probably be empty for a long time. And while there are empty planes, they won't be talks about adding new ones. That's my impression. I keep up a bit, but I'm unaffiliated.

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by [deleted] »

sigzero wrote: post #61
a1371 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look up proposal L2/20-190. They provide a number of good reasons for pregnant man. To summarize: - It avoids gender stereotyping of men in Parenthood. - couples say "we are pregnant". The term pregnant is culturally used for men too as their search shows. - the emoji is not just for pregnancy, it is also for feeling bloated, full, and hungry. I sometimes used this emoji for saying that I'm expecting something. My pa…

Except all of those things is NOT what the actual emoji conveys.

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Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by mouse_ »

NayamAmarshe wrote: post #53
gardenhedge wrote: post #29

It sucks that emojis everywhere are all the same. I miss the old days.

Not on Telegram and Discord. They have custom emojis.

Discord handles emojis better than any other chat platform I've used; I think this is one of the main reasons people like to use it. Telegram's up there with Skype for being one of the absolute worst at handling them. I type :flushed: and it gives me smiling blushing face instead of :flushed:. I type :o (which has always meant surprised pikachu face, since before the surprised pikachu face was even a meme) and it gives me fearful face emoji. WHY? I respond with just an emoji, and it puts a huge distracting gimmicky animated emoji into the chat. Sure I can just disable them on my end, but other users are still going to see them as the default, which can lead to miscommunication, and also, I just don't want to be seen like that. Discord simply never steps on my toes like that, it works as intended. So many chat clients over the years have died by failing to understand that less is more.

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by jez »

One of the custom emoji I use the most is a picture of a judge’s gavel mid-swing. It’s useful to convey the finality of a decision that’s been made. There’s a judge emoji where the judge is holding a gavel, but it doesn’t quite work the same way. If I were going to ask the committee for one emoji, this would be it.

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by jenadine »

miiiiiike wrote: post #13

I like the bloated balloon one and a period/pre-period emojis would be good. A few women in my life (managers/directors/executives) are terrified to talk about their periods because it could be used against them. I'm going to risk turning this into one of those "Normalize " tweets.. But cramps, bloating, irritability, pain, any number of other things. I want a status emoji for headaches and "didn't sleep well". Somet…

Note that a period emoji was approved in 2019

https://emojipedia.org/drop-of-blood/

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