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Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?

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Re: Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?

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Random question: Why are there so many emoji "implementations"? I understand copyright, but is it really cheaper/easier/preferable for all these different companies to design their own emojis?

For the same reason that there are many fonts. Unicode only defines codepoints, like "UPSIDE-DOWN FACE U+1F643", similar to how it only defines "U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL A". I for one believe it was a very stupid idea to standardize emoji, but here we are.

Unicode has more than enough space and text is rarely a blip on the amount of traffic carried on the internet, emojis are fine.
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