But à, á, â, and ä are different characters altogether
But can be represented using the code point for 'a' followed by the code point for a diacritic. True, Unicode includes redundant precomposed code points for many accented Latin letters and for Korean hangul, but it's trying to represent older encodings that likewise had precomposed code points. With emoji, there are no such older encodings, so the consortium can save code points by encoding them decomposed. Likewise with accented Latin letters that do not appear in a legacy encoding.
There is no reason for a particular emoticon to eat up more space in the Unicode space.
Five code points for skin colors aren't significant "more space". Imagine if all Latin letters with diacritics had to be precomposed, not just the ones in legacy encodings. That would take more space. Decomposed characters take O(n + m) code points; precomposed ones take O(nm) code points, which is much bigger.
Then what PC should one use to search for a job? And what PC should one use for studies and entertainment before becoming old enough to work as an employee or old enough to sign contracts?
Just buy a cheap laptop (chromebooks spring to mind), wipe it and put linux on it.
I was under the impression that a Chromebook wiped and reinstalled with GNU/Linux would beg the user to reenable OS verification (which wipes the drive) every time it's turned on. If you're referring to other cheap laptops, there's a good chance of those not working well with GNU/Linux either.
When your work is 90 percent in apps that are ported to X11/Linux and 10 percent in apps that need Wine, you need an x86. The same is true if some of the Linux apps are proprietary and not compiled for ARM.
I certainly hope you don't expect anyone to remember who said what in every post in multiple threads.
Nope, just trying to cite rather than repeating myself.
You admit that I will likely need to consult a table of thousands of emojis.
And someone just learning Chinese or Japanese would need to consult a table of thousands of hanzi/kanji. Likewise, someone using lesser-known punctuation in English, such as the en and em dashes and mathematical symbols, would need to consult a table for those. Perhaps the solution involves improved emoji input methods rather than not including emojis at all.
If you're combining God of Abraham as viewed by Christians and the God of Abraham as viewed by Muslims, it's even easier to make the case that more people have killed in the name of that God than of Satan.
Unicode has U+1F467 Girl and U+1F419 Octopus. If this were SoylentNews, I could show them inline, but Slashdot uses a code point whitelist because of past abuses of bidirectional control characters.
Adding emoji to Unicode makes about as much sense as adding new letters to the alphabet, and nobody seems to feel any great need to do that.
Except when a language has more than 26 sounds. This is how Icelandic gets the thorn and edh, some African languages get a stretched-out s whose capital looks like Greek sigma, German gets a ligature of stretched out s and s, Mbembe gets a fish-shaped round A, Nigerian languages get letters with hooks and a turned E, Chipewyan gets capital and lowercase glottal stops, and more.
Is there a transcript, in case people can't watch video (hard of hearing, on break at work, capped Internet, or can read faster than real time)? The trend of presenting things as video when they could as easily be text disappoints me.
If "apple" were to be included in UTF-8, it should be a generic apple-shaped fruit symbol, not the computer brand trademark.
Exactly: see U+1F34E Red Apple and U+1F34F Green Apple even in Apple's emoji font. They're encoded next to other foods. And instead of Twitter's logo, we get a generic U+1F426 Bird even in the Twemoji font.
A bar and triangle seems to be pretty universally understood to mean "play/pause", for example.
Not among certain members of my family. One keeps asking me "Why doesn't it just say 'Play'?" when she can't figure out which button to push. When I try to explain the reason behind internationalized pictographs by asking "It's made in China. Would you prefer that it said 'Play' in Chinese?", it still doesn't help.
Because Unicode aims to be a superset of all national character sets. Some emojis, such as the card suits and the smiley face, date back to code page 437 on the IBM PC from the early 1980s, where they were encoded at 01h-06h. The Miscellaneous Symbols largely derive from Wingdings.
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How many mainstream Linux apps are proprietary and not compiled for ARM?
Just from the top of my head:
But how many remain in wide use? I don't know what decade you're posting from, but the majority of apps you listed were superseded years ago.
Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator
Discontinued in favor of SeaMonkey.
StarOffice
Discontinued in favor of LibreOffice.
Sun/Oracle Java
I thought most GNU/Linux users were on IcedTea now instead of using Oracle binaries.
But à, á, â, and ä are different characters altogether
But can be represented using the code point for 'a' followed by the code point for a diacritic. True, Unicode includes redundant precomposed code points for many accented Latin letters and for Korean hangul, but it's trying to represent older encodings that likewise had precomposed code points. With emoji, there are no such older encodings, so the consortium can save code points by encoding them decomposed. Likewise with accented Latin letters that do not appear in a legacy encoding.
There is no reason for a particular emoticon to eat up more space in the Unicode space.
Five code points for skin colors aren't significant "more space". Imagine if all Latin letters with diacritics had to be precomposed, not just the ones in legacy encodings. That would take more space. Decomposed characters take O(n + m) code points; precomposed ones take O(nm) code points, which is much bigger.
1. Get a job
Then what PC should one use to search for a job? And what PC should one use for studies and entertainment before becoming old enough to work as an employee or old enough to sign contracts?
Just buy a cheap laptop (chromebooks spring to mind), wipe it and put linux on it.
I was under the impression that a Chromebook wiped and reinstalled with GNU/Linux would beg the user to reenable OS verification (which wipes the drive) every time it's turned on. If you're referring to other cheap laptops, there's a good chance of those not working well with GNU/Linux either.
When your work is 90 percent in apps that are ported to X11/Linux and 10 percent in apps that need Wine, you need an x86. The same is true if some of the Linux apps are proprietary and not compiled for ARM.
I just don't see the use case for a POS bargin basement full-size *LINUX* desktop.
Perhaps for uses that a Pi would fit plus the ability to run the occasional Windows-only application in Wine.
as I wrote above
I certainly hope you don't expect anyone to remember who said what in every post in multiple threads.
Nope, just trying to cite rather than repeating myself.
You admit that I will likely need to consult a table of thousands of emojis.
And someone just learning Chinese or Japanese would need to consult a table of thousands of hanzi/kanji. Likewise, someone using lesser-known punctuation in English, such as the en and em dashes and mathematical symbols, would need to consult a table for those. Perhaps the solution involves improved emoji input methods rather than not including emojis at all.
fallacious
Which I'm willing to do my best to repair.
But now they have different characters for different complexions of emojis - something that should be a font, rather than a character change.
That'd be like needing a separate font for à, á, â, and ä. Think of color of emojis as analogous to a diacritic.
If you're combining God of Abraham as viewed by Christians and the God of Abraham as viewed by Muslims, it's even easier to make the case that more people have killed in the name of that God than of Satan.
It is logographic (like Kanji) etc
Yet kanji are enCJKoded.
If each product, or even 10%, have an emoji, how much time will it take me to sift through them all and find the one I want?
That's why, as I wrote above, Unicode has a generic chocolate bar rather than a branded one. Likewise, it'd likely end up with a generic wafer bar.
What are the chances will have no idea what most of them are supposed to indicate?
Slim. Unicode Consortium publishes code charts describing what each code point encodes.
we didn't expect to be both the client AND the product
Before Windows, it was cable TV, and before that, newspapers. Subscriptions alone often aren't enough to pay the full cost, nor are ads alone.
Now you're discriminating against amputees. You sexist monster.
Unicode has U+26C4 Pale Man Without Legs.
Unicode has U+1F467 Girl and U+1F419 Octopus. If this were SoylentNews, I could show them inline, but Slashdot uses a code point whitelist because of past abuses of bidirectional control characters.
U+1F35D Spaghetti and U+1F984 Unicorn Face exist.
Adding emoji to Unicode makes about as much sense as adding new letters to the alphabet, and nobody seems to feel any great need to do that.
Except when a language has more than 26 sounds. This is how Icelandic gets the thorn and edh, some African languages get a stretched-out s whose capital looks like Greek sigma, German gets a ligature of stretched out s and s, Mbembe gets a fish-shaped round A, Nigerian languages get letters with hooks and a turned E, Chipewyan gets capital and lowercase glottal stops, and more.
There's already an emoji for "You are all cows" (U+1F42E Cow Face). There's even one for "App appers app apps with apps" (U+1F4F2 Mobile Phone With Rightwards Arrow at Left). And there are plenty of faces for the integrated face system. But what would the hosts file emoji look like?
Is there a transcript, in case people can't watch video (hard of hearing, on break at work, capped Internet, or can read faster than real time)? The trend of presenting things as video when they could as easily be text disappoints me.
it should be a hand flicking someone off. Everyone has a middle finger
Please see my reply to Anonymous Coward.
Likewise, if you don't have any Korean fonts installed on your PC, you need "web fonts and/or Javascript libraries to render" Korean characters.
What I really want though is a bat, there's two fucking rabbits, but no bat.
Unicode has a bat, but it has a ball.
If "apple" were to be included in UTF-8, it should be a generic apple-shaped fruit symbol, not the computer brand trademark.
Exactly: see U+1F34E Red Apple and U+1F34F Green Apple even in Apple's emoji font. They're encoded next to other foods. And instead of Twitter's logo, we get a generic U+1F426 Bird even in the Twemoji font.
A bar and triangle seems to be pretty universally understood to mean "play/pause", for example.
Not among certain members of my family. One keeps asking me "Why doesn't it just say 'Play'?" when she can't figure out which button to push. When I try to explain the reason behind internationalized pictographs by asking "It's made in China. Would you prefer that it said 'Play' in Chinese?", it still doesn't help.
Because Unicode aims to be a superset of all national character sets. Some emojis, such as the card suits and the smiley face, date back to code page 437 on the IBM PC from the early 1980s, where they were encoded at 01h-06h. The Miscellaneous Symbols largely derive from Wingdings.
The additional code to load them for display on the web
...is no more than the existing code to display any other glyph in a font. But in any case, perhaps U+1F595 Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended might be more to your liking.
That's why U+1F36B is a generic chocolate bar rather than a HERSHEY'S® bar.