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Unicode Proposes Regional Emoji Flags for Next Year
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Oh please, stop with this tripe.
Regional flage, whats next? Vegan flags, peta flags, EU flags, Sexual orientation flags, isis flags and so on ?
This is just PC style clutter (MSN messenger style) and has no place on the iPhone as a stock option.
Regional flage, whats next? Vegan flags, peta flags, EU flags, Sexual orientation flags, isis flags and so on ?
This is just PC style clutter (MSN messenger style) and has no place on the iPhone as a stock option.
Hmm, it'll be interesting to see what Unicode does to deal with the increasing complexity of emoji. As of right now, country flags are stored as two separate characters and changed to a single glyph. Racial modifiers add another character to standard emoji as well.
I propose that eventually, emoji will become so complex that individual bits in each character will be mapped to a specific pixel in an image. I've started prototyping myself, and I've created a few proof-of-concept "bitmaps". You have the Just Pretty Exceptional Graphics, or JPEG for short (but I can't imagine it'll catch on), which allows for a lot of compression. The Perfectly Nice Graphic uses crazy lossless compression and allows for transparency. I've also developed an animated format called the Great Image—you probably don't care, anyway.
I'm just hypothesizing about things to come. Could be wrong.
I propose that eventually, emoji will become so complex that individual bits in each character will be mapped to a specific pixel in an image. I've started prototyping myself, and I've created a few proof-of-concept "bitmaps". You have the Just Pretty Exceptional Graphics, or JPEG for short (but I can't imagine it'll catch on), which allows for a lot of compression. The Perfectly Nice Graphic uses crazy lossless compression and allows for transparency. I've also developed an animated format called the Great Image—you probably don't care, anyway.
I'm just hypothesizing about things to come. Could be wrong.
Using emoji is hectic, now you have to speend more time searching for the right emoji than typing the whole message. Like how many people really use the red foot prints or the cow.
It is also one of the ugliest smilies in internet history, even the MSN is much better.
It is also one of the ugliest smilies in internet history, even the MSN is much better.
