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

F that

  • Echo DotEnglish
    15•3 months ago

    I actually don’t mind it being added as a text character because then I can actually use it. Using it as an emoji is useless to everyone other than the crypto bros that want to spam it on Twitter.

      • @AnAmericanPotato@programming.devEnglish
        10•3 months ago

        I don’t know about strictly “unable” but there are a million contexts where it is a bad idea and simply not done. Like a spreadsheet or financial document. Or anywhere you want your text to behave like text — with a consistent font, color, style, etc. The difference between $ (text) and 💲 (emoji) is pretty stark in most contexts.

        • @ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
          7•3 months ago

          For example, on the dark background of the UI I am viewing your comment on, The $ symbol is in white colour (as the font has been set).

          But the emoji is dark grey, and wouldn’t be visible if I had a cheap, low contrast monitor.

          • @Trev625@lemm.eeEnglish
            5•3 months ago

            For me it looks like this:

            So the text one appears the same for both of us but the emoji one appears differently which could possibly change its meaning if they were different enough

            • @ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
              3•3 months ago

              Probably because the emoji fonts don’t change their colour with the font.color, which normal characters do.

              And your browser is using a different font from mine

      • Echo DotEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Emoji are only supported in rich text formatted documents they’re not actual text. If I type a Euro symbol it’s a Euro symbol it’s not a picture of a Euro symbol depending on context it’s the actual Euro symbol. If I ask a computer what symbol it is the computer can tell me it’s a Euro symbol, it doesn’t go, ooh I don’t know it’s a picture.

        € 💶

        One renders consistently irrespective of device viewing the other is entirely dependent of device viewing. Go look at this post on different devices and see the problem