• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    How does something like that happen? Did google make a machine to interpret the b&w representations? Surely a person would have read the text “yellow” at some point in the process.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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    9 hours ago

    Unicode is now adding legacy computing symbols with character sets for old computers like PET, even very obscure ones. Meanwhile Android 4.4 was installed on hundreds of millions of devices. Maybe there’ll be a hairy heart one day, perhaps by allowing the modifier sequence of colored heart + hair color?

    They’re trying to emulate the look of the original in the reference design. Otherwise, I don’t see how

    1CC50 𜱐 ALIEN CRAB STEPPING RIGHT
    1CC51 𜱑 ALIEN CRAB STEPPING LEFT
    

    are very much not mirror images of eacb other.

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    Because Unicode supposed to be a universal way for forming letters, not cater to stupid kids. Throw out that emoji shit out of Unicode!