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would rather delete the lot and replace them with the animated cat and panda stickers from Facebook as they are far cuter.
 
Drives me nuts when people use Caucasian to mean "white":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_of_the_Caucasus

The Caucasus are quite possibly the most diverse region on the planet. A few cartoon faces from there and a few select parts of Africa and you'll be hard pressed to find a physiognomy not represented.

We want more than just white faces, so we should say that, rather than trying to make it sound like Caucasian is a more academically grounded concept.
 
There's a standards body responsible for emoji!!!! :confused:

Of course! If there weren't, then they couldn't be used in URLs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#


That does point to the challenge though. The argument that they're standardized is a bit of a dodge-- the spec doesn't indicate the ethnicity of most of the glyphs and makes quite clear that they expect implementers to take liberties with their designs.
The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to be expected in actual fonts.
The catch though is that we use them to try and express an idea, and so we expect the glyph received to be similar enough to the glyph sent to express the thought.

I think the yellow smilies do that quite well in a cute and generic way for emotions-- though I wouldn't be surprised if there's some cultural differences in there as well. There are some glyphs that are specific about costume which probably further suggest an ethnic origin. Most of the ones shown in the article though are just meant to indicate "man", "woman, "princess", etc and there's nothing that says those couldn't be made more ethnically diverse and still meet spec.
 
I'm pretty sure they are supposed to look like Japanese people not white people. But we think they look like white people. Like when people watch a anime and assume the characters are white but the artist meant for them to be asian.
 
Why would you think it's that weird that a guy with brown hair and brown skin wouldn't want to represent himself with a blonde haired, blue eyed guy with light skin?

I never said such a thing. I said that it is impossible to make icons to suit every "race", and that what they should do is make the icons generic, like sylouhettes, or totally different from any "race" (eg: green color and blue funny hair, o hell, like the classic yellow circle emoticons).

Emoticons were created to convey emotions, not to represent the user. For that we have avatars (photos, cartoons, 3d characters, whatever...).
 
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They should add a gay couple one, i.e. female-female and male-male. As it stands, it's only male-female that's available in any sort of "couple" emoji.

And oh, maybe more flags?
 
I dont understand why apples emoji are unicode standard. They dont work on any other platforms/device than apples messages services. Cant they add like thousands of emojis if they want.
 
Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789

Simple suggestion, add in the letters A->Z , and the digits 0->9.
Then we won't have to use the bland default keyboard at all and it will be Emojis all the way!
 
Isn't the yellow emoji universal ?

while apple wants to add more emoji, other companies developp their activities and invest in startups like waze, oculus rift, whatsapp....

And the big question is:
Is J.ive in charge of these emojis design ??
 
Isn't the yellow emoji universal ?

while apple wants to add more emoji, other companies developp their activities and invest in startups like waze, oculus rift, whatsapp....

And the big question is:
Is J.ive in charge of these emojis design ??

Apple *can* do more than one thing at once...
 
I dont understand why apples emoji are unicode standard. They dont work on any other platforms/device than apples messages services. Cant they add like thousands of emojis if they want.

They work on any platform that supports the Unicode standard. If Apple wants to display more and different emoji characters, the right way to do this is to add them to the Unicode standard. Plenty of space there.

An alternative would be to have different fonts. There are emoji characters named "baby", "boy", "girl", "man", "woman", and there is no reason why these characters couldn't be displayed differently depending on what font you choose. Like a letter "g" looks totally different depending on the font.
 
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I think Line pioneered the stickers before facebook took the idea. Its a free download - check it out.

Yes, Line had stickers first.

It's also the best messaging app I've used.

You are totally wrong. There is nothing in the Unicode standard saying that the images you are calling "caucasian" belong to any specific race. And the ones that you call "other races" are a "japanese ogre" and "japanese goblin".

I think a joke just flew over your head. ;)
 
The small stuff

It would be better if I didn't have to give storage space over to them too.


* EDIT * DO NOT READ THIS IT IS NONSENSE

So one emoji is about 64x64 pixels, at 3 bytes per pixel that is an uncompressed size of 12k per Emoji.
And lets say there are a 1000 of them ( there isn't anywhere near that number in reality ) then that would take about 12MB of your storage.

Lets assume you have the smallest iPhone available, the 16GB model, that means the 1000 Emojis will take up 0.00000732%

Now, you are free to care about whatever you want, its your life, and I respect that, but just as your friend ( and we are friends right? ) I don't think you need to worry about 0.00000732% of your storage being used up on Emojis.


* EDIT * DO NOT READ THIS IT IS NONSENSE

* WHOEVER WROTE THIS HAS BRAIN CANCER
 
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Lets assume you have the smallest iPhone available, the 16GB model, that means the 1000 Emojis will take up 0.00000732%

I don't think you need to worry about 0.00000732% of your storage being used up on Emojis.

The smallest iPhone available is 8GB.

If 1.2MB of space is used storing Emojis, that is actually (1.2 / 8192MB) = ~0.000146, or 0.0146% of available storage space.

Still completely insignificant? Yes. But a much larger percentage than what you claim.
 
The smallest iPhone available is 8GB.

If 1.2MB of space is used storing Emojis, that is actually (1.2 / 8192MB) = ~0.000146, or 0.0146% of available storage space.

Still completely insignificant? Yes. But a much larger percentage than what you claim.

The funniest thing, isn't just that your maths is correct, and mine is off by about a factor of 10000, but I edited my message at least 5 times to correct mistakes.
I think I have brain cancer.
 
Not really. For example I'm "white" (whatever that means) and I see the racism in your image.

Making negative generalisations about people based on their skin colour / race is racism. That's either true for all races or none at all.

There, I think I win. What's my prize?

Your sarcasm was noted.

However the problem in racism, is that there is always the misperception on the part of the racist there is something to be gained or lost.
 
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