I’ve become oddly obsessed with Emoji recently and in examining the Unicode standardisation of Emoji characters I noticed a surprising number of common characters missing.
When I say “missing” I mean missing from the canonical EmojiSources.txt file in the Unicode standard, but present in iOS.
When I say “common” I mean no more obscure than any of the others and in every day use by iPhone owners.
Splitting the omissions out and viewing them on Android, the glyphs are indeed missing from the system font.
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This New Year’s eve I thought I might blog some predictions for the coming year, (social purchasing, app stores, yada yada), but I decided that wasn’t stupid enough, so at risk of sounding like a deranged conspiracy theorist, here’s my outlook for 2013 instead. Sweet dreams, and happy 2011 everyone! Continue reading…
I joked yesterday about writing one omnibus tweet per week. But actually, that’s not a bad idea at my current blogging rate. So here goes, my week in the Twittersphere –
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