Why are there 5 chicken emoji but no Dinosaur Emoji?

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17 points·rockyour99··11 comments

Aren't chickens dinosaurs?!

not to mention dragon emoji

[Edit: Hm... why don't emoji show up in HN?]

Seems intentional. I emailed dang a while ago asking for emoji support in the about field for HN. He did recognize that's where emoji would make the most sense on HN, I've yet to be able to put the crying laughing emoji or the 100 emoji in my HN about field. I guess emoji are blocked to prevent HN from turning into Product Hunt?

>I guess emoji are blocked to prevent HN from turning into Product Hunt?

No, Reddit. Hacker News fears nothing more than turning into Reddit.

There is a dragon emoji! Edit: doesn't work in HN, http://emojipedia.org/dragon/

This sounds like a big joke.

I'd rather emoji be removed from Unicode.

Does it bother you that people enjoy a part of something that is otherwise boring? Users clamoring for the newest emoji's is the main thing driving adoption of updated unicode standards, that is surely a good thing.

Yes, but emoji are endlessly growing and politicized in a way Unicode shouldn't be.

A global standard for emoji is a great idea, but Unicode isn't the right place for it.

Why?

Unicode contains Egyptian hieroglyphics, occult symbols, playing cards, wingdings, and Linear A - things no one will ever use, and which no one ever complains about.

Emoji, meanwhile, have been used by people for decades to actually communicate, and people complain about them constantly. It doesn't make a lot of sense since clearly emoji fall within the intended purpose of Unicode, and removing emoji from Unicode would actually break things people care about.

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