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I still don't understand how so many people are in favor of this whole emoji system being a part of unicode. Most people I interact with seem to end up using application specific emojis anyway.

Aren't people afraid that if there's too much stuff in a standard then people will stop using the standard?

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I got one love emojis and think it was one of the best decisions to include them in Unicode.

I don't buy that you can have tens of thousands of weird human scripts but then a few icons representing non verbal communication is suddenly "too much". Sure a system might not support everything but the same is true for the regular text scripts. And then it means I can include emojis in my she'll script, slack messages, copy paste around, and it just works.

I love it!

The problem is that the emojis appear different in different applications/devices. They're different enough that it can change the meaning of what you see, which means that people end up using it in an application-specific way.

But we already had application specific emoticons. They worked well, they work so well, that even with emojis in Unicode we still use application specific ones instead.

Also, the default ones seem to always be ugly.

Also also, the "weird human scripts" generally have a fairly long history of use.

Except... they're application specific. So, no ability to copy and paste, no way to send SMS to one person then iMessage to another then WhatsApp. Every app having a different keyboard with different icons in a different order. And what about websites? Multiple apps showing tweets? Emails?

My problem with emojis is finding them. No, I dont want to search hundrets of tiny images for making a point. No, I dont want to learn another alphabet with thousands of symbols. Just _write_ is so much easier. Or link it with a unicode name to be able to refer to it without searching

Uh, just use the picker which has search buld-in?

Windows+. On windows

OSX was something like ctrl-space or something. I rarely chat on Mac so I don't recall.

Or one of the many applications that support the :emoji_name: autocomplete.

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