Talk:1726: Unicode

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  1. Proposal by Courtney Milan - 3 dinosaurs: http://unicode.org/L2/L2016/16072-jurassic-emoji.pdf
  2. Feedback by Andrew West - 13 dinosaurs: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16103-jurassic-fdbk.pdf
  3. Article by Becky Ferreira - they should have feathers: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dinosaur-emojis

Sebastian 162.158.83.168 12:14, 29 August 2016 (UTC)--

Regarding the brontosaurus reference, there is also some material in the intro of the wikipedia page. Chtit draco (talk) 14:33, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
Comic could be a reference to WE’RE ALL USING THESE EMOJI WRONG - http://www.wired.com/2015/05/using-emoji-wrong/ where the 😪 emoji is supposed to be a sleepy emoji and not a side-tear emoji - http://emojipedia.org/sleepy-face/ - see facebook's interpretation vs Samsung's 162.158.49.60 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I thought it was funny that the two people in the upper left (who, at the time of this comment, were noted to be "helping" Cueball) are actually impeding the quixotic quest by arguing amongst themselves. 108.162.237.222 23:38, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Personally, I'm still dumbfounded by the lack of a marijuana leaf. There are pills, a syringe, a cigarette, rice wine, plus *multiple* Emoji for both wine & beer. I hate the fact that Emoji are *not* implemented in a sensible, standardized fashion: For instance, the guy Emoji may or may not have a mustache, or gray hair. The "short hair" female may be blonde, or brunette & may even have a coiffure instead of short hair! I think they should be far more specific with their definitions. Personally, I'm sticking with emoticons until they get this sorted out.  ; P As for dinosaur Emoji, contrary to my previous statement about specificity, I believe you only need three dinomoji: Carnivore head (raptor or T-rex, non-specific), long-neck herbivore in profile, & winged. Anything more specific than that should probably be expressed with, y'know, WORDS. 108.162.221.87 07:35, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Words? Weird concept ;) Elektrizikekswerk (talk) 07:47, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
There's already a winged dinosaur emoji and has been since 2010 http://emojipedia.org/bird/ Jeremyp (talk) 09:33, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

There is a good amount of detail regarding why/how the Unicode people are arguing over Emojis (In reference to the title text) but there is not much information provided regarding what Randall is referring to in the main strip, e.g. an example of what kind of language regulations the Unicode group try to impose. While the current explanation does a good job of explaining why there is a lot of drama regarding a Brontosaurus Emoji, the meat and potatoes of the article is in reference to language itself. I have never encountered anyone trying to communicate in English using letters that are not part of the current alphabet. Since English uses predefined Roman symbols for sound representation, and the Unicode people only deal with the representation of symbols, I am having a difficult time comprehending how the group in charge of rendering English into text would have any part in the changes that (at least English) is undergoing (which are largely related to spelling and grammar, not the symbols itself). Snowblinded (talk) 08:19, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

I think the main point of this comic is about using characters from different alphabets to get a funny look (or fool anti-spam). In Unicode, characters sharing the same design but from different alphabets have separate code-points. For example: U+0041 (latin "A"), U+0391 (greek "Alpha") and U+0410 (cyrillic "A") look exactly the same but are not interchangeable... neither in Unicode nor in real live since writing English with Greek letters doesn't make sense anyway. Example 2: U+0049 (latin "I"), U+2160 (roman numeral 1) and U+30BC (japanese "E") have a similar yet different look (and very different meaning), and so have different code-points (seems logical). One may want to mix them to get a funny typing... as long as writing proper English is not a concern. Conclusion: I hardly see how Unicode restricts anything, since the "consistent technical standards" pretty much already exist in any language. 108.162.229.49 11:55, 30 August 2016 (UTC) Sylvain M.