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Terminal Support for Emoji

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Re: Terminal Support for Emoji

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Post by pavlov »

It still pains me that Unicode decided to get in the business of curating an ever-growing clip art collection.

It’s like the Oxford English Dictionary decided that they’re actually poets; their main job is suddenly to invent brand new words that let people write with an exciting level of density and poetic license; and those new dictionary words would also be multi-color because everybody owns a pack of colored pencils, right.

Re: Terminal Support for Emoji

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Post by LorenDB »

I never have understood the push to emojify everything. But commit messages, options in menus, status outputs, you name it: I think we'd be better off leaving it in plain ASCII (or Unicode if your language needs that, just as long as you don't dip into the emoji).

Emoji are quite nice for messaging people and occasionally some of the more generic ones can be useful for status indicators (think the red and green circles), but I don't want to be presented with a little green worm every time somebody submits a bug fix on GitHub.

Re: Terminal Support for Emoji

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Post by avgcorrection »

pavlov wrote: post #2

It still pains me that Unicode decided to get in the business of curating an ever-growing clip art collection. It’s like the Oxford English Dictionary decided that they’re actually poets; their main job is suddenly to invent brand new words that let people write with an exciting level of density and poetic license; and those new dictionary words would also be multi-color because everybody owns a pack of colored penci…

Unicode needed to include written-on-paper glyphs that existed in the world. That makes sense to most people. But a lot, lot, lot of communication these days happen digitally (digital first). You can't scribble things as freely in a textbox like this one. You can certainly make suggestive combinations like `:)`, but you are pretty limited. (How do you scribble "family of three: mom, father, daughter" without any emojis?)

How do you propose that Unicode include glyph innovations that are digital-first?

Re: Terminal Support for Emoji

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Post by avgcorrection »

LorenDB wrote: post #6

I never have understood the push to emojify everything. But commit messages, options in menus, status outputs, you name it: I think we'd be better off leaving it in plain ASCII (or Unicode if your language needs that, just as long as you don't dip into the emoji). Emoji are quite nice for messaging people and occasionally some of the more generic ones can be useful for status indicators (think the red and green circl…

I think emojis in commit messages are very overrated.

But emojis are great in informal communication when you want to compensate for the fact that your words are completely divorced from inflection, tone, and body language.

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