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Everyone be using the eggplant emoji as a penis euphemism, I have two thoughts on this ... (lemmy.world)
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  1. over time this might affect our collective consciousness in regards to the purpose & function of the eggplant; and

  2. can we please just get a straightforward penis emoji already?? Half the human population has a penis attached to their bodies anyway, why are we still so prude about incorporating actual penises into mainstream vernacular & daily life?

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[–] rar 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I always thought incorporating a drawing into legit character encoding is not a good idea.

[–] emptyother@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

We got space. Its not like a new language with unique character sets are just gonna pop up any day now. Maybe if we found intelligent aliens.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Unicode has ~150k characters, many of which are not supported by any fonts on most people's computers. They still have space in the encoding system for another 900k. They have the space.

For comparison, the Basic Multilingual Plane in Unicode (the most "useful" part with most modern languages) only contains 65k characters and ASCII only contains 128 characters.