Looking at the differences of emoji "styles" across different platforms / systems, I wonder how many misunderstandings happen every day because of this.
It's clear that a lot of times, people (me included), rely on very tiny details of an emoji to express our emotions accurately - this is lost by a huge margin once you have different interpretations of the same emoji. Heck, even when Apple changed the look & feel of the emoji on iOS >=10, I had a hard time using some of them, because they would not express precisely the same emotion / meaning that they used to do.
That's really interesting. I've been struggling with how to choose example emojis for my emoji domain registration engine https://xn--qeiaa.ws/. I was working from an older article on Twitter emoji popularity from 538, but this is something I'll definitely dig into. Thanks!
I detest this punycode thing and all this unicode domain name thing too. They're difficult to input, and when they are not, they are some random xn--qeiaa which does not mean anything and makes me fear clicking. Why would anybody with a sane mind would use an incomprehensible and untypeable domain is beyond me, given also all languages today have a latinisation of some sort, and most languages use latin alphabet anyways. And WRT emoji domains, well, that is a joke.
I still don't really understand why we had to use punycode for this instead of plain UTF-8?
Unicode domains are nice, because it's always frustrating to have to misspell words just to make them fit within ASCII for no good reason (other than technical) but it really should have been handled in a better way, both on the technical side (punycode is ugly and scary for everyone) and the administrative side (it's actually not that difficult to handle phishing or to semi-automatically attribute domains with accents to the existing owners of the equivalent domains without accents, for example, at least for most European languages).
«semi-automatically attribute domains with accents to the existing owners»
But this is no good, as in many cases accented and not-accented words mean different things. In italian àncora means anchor and ancòra means still, why would àncora.it (say a big company producing naval anchors) get the rights to own also ancòra.it (which could be an interesting name for a blog, a political journal, etc.)?
That's the semi part. I know there are some collisions, but for the most part there's no problem. It's really not that difficult to check with a dictionary, a national registry of companies, and contact the owners in case of ambiguity.
I think part of the reasoning was down to there being a lot of Unicode characters that look identical to ASCII ones, and that it would make creating legitimate looking domains for phishing a lot easier.
My understanding is that punycode wasn't originally meant to be used by humans. It was just the workaround used to encode non-ASCII names in ASCII-only DNS records.
Later browsers decided to show punycode in the URL bar instead of the decoded value in an effort to fight phishing until "they have a better solution". e.g.
Fair enough... I mean, emoji domains are not for everyone, right? And, of course, there are all kinds of totally valid concerns about unicode domains in general. I would call it an idea at the beginning of its lifecycle. I guess the question is... since it's supported in iOS, is that enough to kickstart interest, which will then pull in the other browsers?
That said, a lot of people are using emojis every day in their communication... seems pretty normal that they'd use them in domains as well, right?
«a lot of people are using emojis every day in their communication... seems pretty normal that they'd use them in domains as well, right?»
Many use memes and photos in their communication daily too, so should we have picture domains? www.[some bitmap in base64].com?
This unicode domains come with many hazards (phishing, domain hacking, different characters w/ identical form) and inconveniencies (input, blind people not seeing the emoji) and are provided just for the ohs and wows without any concrete benefit to balance these problems.
> without any concrete benefit to balance these problems
Except for, you know, being able to have a domain in your naive script, which some of the billions of speakers of languages with non-Latin orthographies might like to do.
I've been looking for something like this for ages- thanks!
However... it needs python on windows, which for complicated reasons I can;t do on this machine... is there a font merger thing that doesn't need python ?
Thanks for the feedback, sorry about making mobile devices sad. Do you mean something like having an input box to type in a subreddit or emoji to search for, or something?
Sorry forgot to reply. Yeah something like a select input to only display a single subreddit's stats. I think I'm in the minority so not worth changing!
Something's up here. That subreddit requires users to post emojis.
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