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

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    • AnAmericanPotato@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      5 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·
        5 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·
          5 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·
            5 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 Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      5 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