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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

These are emojis, not unicode right?

Edit: well, TIL.

[–] Coolcoder360@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Emoji are defined as part of Unicode, so they can be encoded alongside other text:

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

Emoji are part of unicode. And people demand more of them, so it's no surprise they put effort into those, even if OP thinks they are not important.Few people appreciate the unicode consortium for their originally intended work.