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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?

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178 points dgl | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 02:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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p4cmanus3r ◴[24 Jun 25 07:10 UTC] No.44363591[source]▶
Back in my day... They didn't have emojis in terminals.
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voidUpdate ◴[24 Jun 25 07:18 UTC] No.44363623[source]▶
When was your day? Emoticons have been used in terminals since 1982
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account42 ◴[24 Jun 25 08:02 UTC] No.44363860[source]▶
Emoticons are not the same as emojis. For one they allow for more expression or personal style by having different variants, e.g. :-) vs :) or for absolute maniacs: (:

They are also not limited to what some consortium and a couple of megacorporations think you should be able to express.

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oneeyedpigeon ◴[24 Jun 25 08:52 UTC] No.44364130{3}[source]▶
They also lack semantics. There are downsides as well as up.
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arccy ◴[24 Jun 25 09:25 UTC] No.44364293{4}[source]▶
emoji lack clear semantics too, consider the eggplant.
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oneeyedpigeon ◴[24 Jun 25 10:04 UTC] No.44364506{5}[source]▶
I think there's a difference. The code point will always mean "eggplant", it just happens that the concept can be interpreted in different ways according to context—just like the word itself. But ":-)" can only ever mean "colon minus rparens" before further interpretation.
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1. account42 ◴[24 Jun 25 10:35 UTC] No.44364677{6}[source]▶
Actually, according to Unicode, "-" doesn't mean minus - U+002D is hyphen-minus.

And as for the eggplant, your semantics-as-specified are useless when 99.9% of the usage has a different intended meaning due to the inherent lack of expressiveness in a corporate-approved emoji language.