Inside 'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium (buzzfeed.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report on Buzzfeed: There's trouble afoot inside the Emoji Council of Elders, or, at the very least, signs of a low-simmering schism that's being referred to by some of its participants -- perhaps with less humor than one might expect -- as "Emojigeddon." A series of frustrated emails show a deepening rift between those who adhere to the organization's original mission to code old and obscure and minority languages and those who are investing time and resources toward Unicode's newer and most popular character sets: emojis. From the article: "The correspondence offers a peek behind the scenes of the peculiar and little-known organization that's unexpectedly been tasked with building what some see as the first digital universal language." What are your thoughts of emojis? Have you embraced and intertwined them into your digital language or are you unconvinced of their ability to transcribe any kind of deep understanding?

Comments

Re:And people want to bring this bullshit to /.?!

[Austerity Empowers]

I would like to mod this with the poop emoji.

Yeah

[Indigo]

I've been a little worried about the Unicode Consortium ever since 'PILE OF POO' (U+1F4A9) received its own codepoint. Don't know what's going on with those folks, but it doesn't seem healthy. Given that Unicode is an important and widely used standard, it seems like perhaps they should take their work a little more seriously. Or have they already 'JUMP THE SHARK'ed?

Re:Science Fiction is the Prediction!

[seyyah]

I can't stand them. They offer very little real world value to anyone other than the slackjawed consumers content to rub on their phones all day.

s/phones/tablets/ and that's pretty much what Amenemhat said to Khnumhotep in 2650 BC.

Re:Dejavu all over again

[GTRacer]

Huh? Japanese (and I assume Chinese) typists don't need monster keyboards. Standard 104-key units will do, assuming the OS taking in the keys provides a simple IME/autocomplete dictionary. I've typed in Japanese using romaji , rendering a mix of Kanji and kana far faster than 3 characters per minute.

Just in case you're interested, using such an IME, you type watashi and at first you get , then space move through Kanji matches, and I stop on .

Aaaand now I see the need for Unicode support on /.