35 crypto companies got together to make a change dot org petition called “Bitcoin Deserves an Emoji”.

F that

  • @xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    There’s even more use cases that come up, like being able to use emoji and other fancy symbols anywhere unicode is supported. So you can even program with them. People have taken that idea to the extreme just for fun: https://www.emojicode.org/

    • @rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      Other special symbols are a different thing. For APL language or others.

      They are useful, provided you have them on your keyboard or you have configurable extra keys.

      Symbols specifically for emoji - I mean, people can do what they want with code space, even if I’d rather see another obscure alphabet standardized there. Medieval Armenian or Russian musical notation, for example. Something real .