Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by cpeterso | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

cpeterso·

Is 'PILE OF POO' (U+1F4A9) more shocking than 'LOVE HOTEL' (U+1F3E9)?

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f3e9/index.htm

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel

View on HN

You may be interested in this wonderful article [1] about how these and many other unusual symbols ended up in Unicode. I personally had never considered how much of an issue including flags could be. Quite an interesting discussion around it on HN as well. [2]

[1] - http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/love-hotels-and-unicode/ [2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3792247

Both were readily in common use on Japanese phones. Most of Unicode is existing character sets being incorporated.

Looks like they're part of the Emoji set

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Emoji_in_the_Unicode_stan...

Well, exactly. Emoji are the pictographic emoticons that were in common use on Japanese phones in proprietary encodings.

Well sure, but since when is emoji part of unicode?

Emoji is a lot more mainstream now, too. Both Android and iOS support them, not just 'Japanese phones'.

Uh, what?

>since when is emoji part of unicode?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Emoji_in_the_Unicode_stan...

>Emoji is a lot more mainstream now, too. Both Android and iOS support them, not just 'Japanese phones'.

Um, yes. I said "that were". I realise it is now mainstream now because it is now in Unicode.

Theres not anything seedy about a love hotel. In Japan sometimes it's nicer for couples to go there rather than try and have a romantic evening in a tiny 1 room flat on a futon.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com