I am glad I am not the only one against this. Especially iOS developers seem to love to put Emoji in their tooling and git repos, but that's just my experience.
Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
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Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you make a few examples?
I suppose emdash may count. Spellings like résumé or coöperate if you're fussy about that.
is "résumé" an English word?
EDIT: I guess then that also "café", "façade" and "señor" can retain their original spelling. The question is: where does it stop? will latin-1 suffice?
Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only programmers from English-speaking countries like ASCII. There are millions of us living in other countries who are thankful that Unicode exists, and who are constantly annoyed that a some of our tools don't support it well enough. As someone who grew up bilingual in a country where it's not uncommon for people to speak three or more languages, I hate the idea of being prevented from using one of the languages I…
Ironically, you can't even write proper English in ASCII. It is missing many characters widely used in English text.
You most certainly can. a-z A-Z 0-9 and , . ? ! ; : - ' " ( ) should suffice in nearly all cases apart from anything hyper specialized. You could probably write the majority of all English literature with only those characters, and there's more characters I left off.
What other characters are "widely used" in English texts that are missing from ASCII
Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ironically, you can't even write proper English in ASCII. It is missing many characters widely used in English text.
You most certainly can. a-z A-Z 0-9 and , . ? ! ; : - ' " ( ) should suffice in nearly all cases apart from anything hyper specialized. You could probably write the majority of all English literature with only those characters, and there's more characters I left off. What other characters are "widely used" in English texts that are missing from ASCII
How do I write a letter to my fiancé?
What do I do when I want to take a break and go to a café?
How can I write about that cornerstone of English myth and legend, Bēowulf?
Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
#115If we cannot describe in the subject what we are doing, we should not commit it.
Icons are perfect to define actions (fixing bugs, improving the layout, etc) however, the commit is important when you are doing releases, cherry-picks, maintaining patches, etc.
I'm not against changes and sure the icons look very cool on the front page of GitHub or in `git log`.
However, most of the maintainers, who actually do things with commits, they work looking at the content. Be useful in the future, to understand what was going on, is the main purpose of the commit message.
I agree that a bug, a rocket (and others) can be used to improve the subject of a commit, eventually, the problems are:
-by introducing icons, are we creating a perfect excuse to be lazy during the commit phase?
-Will the icons makes our history of change the poorest?
Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
> [tulip emoji] Is that what it looks like for you? For me it’s a flame (which seems to make more sense for removing code).
Yeah, it looks like a black tulip. As for a flame, I don't associate fire with removing things. Frankly, emoji and icons may work for things but they don't and never have worked for actions . Apple, for example, never did come up with an icon for "print" that people didn't have to be told what it meant. Apple could have saved a lot of grief by using "print" instead of the icon. (The same for "delete".) Back in my day…
> Yeah, it looks like a black tulip.
This alone goes to show that the emoji representations themselves are not even consistent enough either. Using a flame emoji, when all black, can look like a tulip instead; now the original intent of using flame is not even the question, it now is whether or not the symbol is interpretable.
Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
You most certainly can. a-z A-Z 0-9 and , . ? ! ; : - ' " ( ) should suffice in nearly all cases apart from anything hyper specialized. You could probably write the majority of all English literature with only those characters, and there's more characters I left off. What other characters are "widely used" in English texts that are missing from ASCII
How do I write a letter to my fiancé? What do I do when I want to take a break and go to a café? How can I write about that cornerstone of English myth and legend, Bēowulf?
Perhaps ASCII itself is to blame, but in my experience the first two spellings you list are less widely used than "fiance" and "cafe", respectively.
I wouldn't base a paper on it, but (fiancé versus fiance): https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fianc%C3%A9%2C...
café versus cafe: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caf%C3%A9%2Cca...
I argue "Bēowulf" is does not fall under "widely used." Even my high school version of it it was printed "Beowulf." I'm not claiming "ASCII contains all characters used at all in English," just refuting the claim that you can't "write proper English" with ASCII and that it is missing "widely used" characters.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Please use good ol' plaintext I want to emphasize on that. Why do programmers like plaintext, often to the point of wanting ASCII instead of unicode despite its international awesomeness? That's because we are called when things break down in the machinery. Monospace ASCII may look boring, but it has a precious characteristic: there is (almost) 1-to-1 mapping between the inner representation of a character and its…
I was keying in my confirmation code into the self checkin machine to get my boarding pass the other day. The code was something like EFO123. Was that a letter or a digit? I got it wrong, fortunately the software said it interpreted 0 as O and gave me the ticket. Now multiply this by a thousand with Unicode exact lookalike glyphs.
Emoji like those in this article don't have this issue though.
Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
#119Nay! Emoji is slang that excludes a huge number of people, not just due to preference but also because the meaning keeps changing and can be confusing if not exhausting to keep up with. It skews young and/or Western and there's far more kinds of programmers than that.
> It skews young and/or Western How does it skew Western when they were literally invented in Japan?
Yes, emoji is literally Japanese. 絵文字 meaning 'picture as words'. Invented for use in Japanese pagers, later proliferating to mobile phones long before smartphones even existed [0].
Re: Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, zoomer? Not familiar with that term
It's a way of segregating people by age, then acting derisively about various groups in response to that. You identify bad character traits, call them out with the relevant "generation" phrase, and then sneakily imply that they have that character trait because they're within that age range (even when they're not).
Nah it’s mostly a joke only boomers take these labels very very seriously.