Thu. 1/14 - How We Narrowly Avoided an Emoji Shortage
The workaround the Unicode Consortium used to make sure we still get new emojis in 2021, pandemic or not. Facial hair is biologically useless. So why do some humans have it? And the SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule returning this evening will be carrying on it a case of twelve unopened bottles of red wine. But why?
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Links:
The Emoji That Nearly Weren't (Jennifer Daniel, Substack) via Today In Tabs
Emoji ZWJ Sequences: Three…
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