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How often do you use emojis?
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Re:Why doesn't ./ support emojis? (Score:5, Funny)
Sanctuary site.
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This comment will be replaced by an upvote as soon as I have mod points.
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Re: Why doesn't ./ support emojis? (Score:2)
I know you were joking, but the pedant in me can't resist pointing out that Egyptian
hieroglyphs were not pictograms, but just a fancy font. Each one represented a syllable or sound (eg a sun is pronounced ra - the god of the sun is Ra, but as a letter the sun would be used for the sound ra)
Re: Why doesn't ./ support emojis? (Score:1)
Emojis are not needed when we have smileys. .. they are the originals anyway
Smileys are supported just fine... just look :-) ;-) :-P
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Or any UTF-8 for that matter?
Make ASCII Great Again
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I'm waiting for UTF-512. (512 bits per character!)
This will be big enough for all characters in Klingon, Ferengi, Romulan, Cardassian, Minbari, Centuari, Narn, Vorlon, Shadows, etc, etc.
Plus a 2 ^ 256 space can be reserved in that character set for glyphs that are an 8x8 matrix with all possible combinations of the 64 cells black and white. Thus there will be font glyphs that represent all possible 8x8 cell grids, including ones that look like characters from an 8-bi
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Or UTF-16384 with full color and alpha support for those 64 cells!
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I only use those on adult chat sites.
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Auto-Emoji Sucks (Score:5, Informative)
I use them even when I don't want to, like making an ordered list using the alphabet.
A) is the first item
B) is the second item, not a round yellow head wearing sunglasses, dammit!
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C) Cheshire Cat.
Re:Auto-Emoji Sucks (Score:4, Insightful)
I hate all autocorrect. I typed that because it's what I mean, dammit! And if it's wrong, I'd rather correct it myself, because the machine's guess is likely to be wrong too. But auto-emoji are the worst.
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Gair is understandable, it could mean hair, fair, or possibly Nair.
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This. And I have had autocorrect switched off for so long I didn't even know there are auto-emoji.
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I've dealt with smartphone interfaces that apparently don't let you turn off autocorrect (at least, I haven't found a way). That really, really sucks. I've also wrestled with web software that autoemojis what it thinks are emoticons (like the above mentioned B)) and had to stick in do-nothing markup to prevent it from happening.
Emojis are high-bandwidth emoticons (Score:5, Insightful)
And emoticons are just cheapo ASCII art.
Bring back USENET and Gopher, all is forgiven.
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Ditto. I prefer ASCII emoticons. My friends love to use emojis in IRC. Argh! :(
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So, disable the autocorrect. I hate those features. :(
Typing : -) to evade spillcheckers (Score:4, Insightful)
I also strongly prefer ASCII emoticons. The graphic ones aren't consistent across platforms, and often aren't readable enough on phone screens (even not counting that texting them from Android to iPhone or back tends to replace them with different ones with a similar theme or else ??'s.)
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And emoticons are just cheapo ASCII art.
Bring back USENET and Gopher, all is forgiven.
Emoticons and emojis are synonums.
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No they're not. Emoticons are ASCII character combinations like :) and :P. Emojis are the cute drawings that /. still can't show, unlike every other website in existence.
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still can't show, unlike every other website in existence.
Thank christ for that, at least.
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Emojis are the cute drawings that /. still can't show, unlike every other website in existence.
If emojis ever become prevalent on /. and I can't block them somehow, I'm outta here. I hate the fucking things because they've replaced something creative and imaginative and elegant, with something childish and obvious and tasteless. Emojis suck ass.
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Low user ID syndrom: Everything Was Better In The Olden Days.
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When you're commenting at 300 baud you've got lots of time to plan your "smilies".
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wut? High bandwidth? It's a single character. Maybe a mix of a few characters. And the emoji are built into the fonts so there's no bandwidth there either. But k
w810i (Score:1)
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Does smileys count? (Score:1)
Absolutely never (Score:2)
You're literate. Use your words.
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Subtle sarcasm is fairly hard to convey with words only. Not that I would ever be sarcastic...
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Often on my iPhone 4S... (Score:2)
... but rarely on my computers since I can't always see and input them.
Emojis are for plebs (Score:2)
Real nerds are able to express themselves using ASCII art.
(Coincidentally, ASCII art is the only type of smiley faces possible on Slashdot, since it only supports ASCII)
I use *two* smiley faces :-) and :-( (Score:1)
...and that's all anyone ever needs!
emoticons (Score:2)
Never. Nobody seem to understand them. (Score:2)
Maybe I should add that I send them in Morse code.
All the time! (Score:3)
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Consumables (Score:2)
I use emojis once.
Each.
I wasn't aware they could be re-used.
Would they disappear from my old messages, or are they somehow cloned?
Put a dog in it. Everyone loves dogs. (Score:2)
Finally a use for the Apple Touch Bar! (Score:2)
Emojis are the only real use I've found for the Apple Touch Bar. I use them all the time in chat at work.
That touch bar has some real unfortunate icons though. Who was the genius that decided the mute/unmute button should always look like sound is muted?
"Thumbs up" is a useful emoji (Score:1)
(It got deleted on "preview", found here: http://textart4u.blogspot.no/2... [blogspot.no]) Don't tell me you end your email interchange with: "I love you. Over and out!" /Jon
Annoying (Score:1)
Never by choice. (Score:1)
Depends (Score:2)
I put never - I pretty much never use "emojis" but I occasionally use the old school "emoticons" which sometimes get translated into emojis.
Emojis are notcy and convenient (Score:1)
Needs a rarely or very rarely option. (Score:1)
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