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Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode (thenextweb.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the do-not-want dept.

AmiMoJo writes: Food company Nestle has started a petition to get a KitKat emoji into the Unicode standard. They aren't alone, Taco Bell wants a taco emoji added, and Durex suggested adding a condom. While the latter two are at least generic, KitKat is a trademark of Nestle and the "break" image a key part of their marketing. Next year Unicode will include a faceplam emoji (U+1F926) for occasions such as this.

6 of 262 comments (clear)

  1. Time to fork unicode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is pure rubbish. We dont need more crap gunking things up. Make advertising illegal.

  2. Re:Why emojis/emoticons are in Unicode? by undecim11 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Japan

  3. Re:U+1F926 by MachineShedFred · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer U+1F595

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  4. LIGHTSPEED BRIEFS by Thud457 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
    Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

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  5. Re:Why emojis/emoticons are in Unicode? by ljw1004 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can someone explain me why emojis are in Unicode at all?

    So that people can exchange written communication in a standard way, interoperable among vendors and software systems.

  6. Re:Why emojis/emoticons are in Unicode? by PPH · · Score: 1, Funny

    Japan

    And yet no schoolgirl/cephalopod emoji.

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