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10 facts about

¡Emoji!

Kara Carrell

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👋 It’s Kara!

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A bit about me:

  • 👩🏾‍💻 Software Developer at TableXI
  • 📝📢⌨️ Organizer for Write/Speak/Code
  • 👩🏽‍🏫➡️👩🏾‍💻 Career Changer
  • ♒️♋️♍️ Aquarius Sun, Cancer Rising, Virgo Moon

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1. iHeart Emoji

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Things I 💛

About Emoji

  • Emoji is not a picture
  • Emoji taught me about unicode
  • Emoji is my favorite way to express emotion
  • Emoji gets interpreted differently
  • One emoji may have 12 different visualizations
  • You can do cool stuff with emoji
  • Emoji helps explain complex concepts

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2. Emoji is not a picture

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What IS Emoji?

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Emoji is a Character VS Stickers (images)

Emoticons came first, comprised of multiple characters

:-) or 8-D

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What IS Emoji?

Unicode 6.0 standard defined a range of character codes (now known as Emoji) as representing a given symbol, without specifying any specific information on the appearance of the given symbol.

It's probably most accurate to think of 'Emoji' as a sort of alphabet - only that it's an alphabet of symbols, instead of letters. It's then up to the client to display the given Emoji is whatever fashion they choose.

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Kara =

[U+004B,U+0061,U+0072,U+0061]

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👀💖💅 =

[ U+1F440, U+1F496, U+1F485 ]

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3. Emoji is adopted/loved/hated by Unicode

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The First Emoji

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4. Emoji helps us convey emotion

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5. Emoji can be interpreted differently

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Code Meaning != Code Display

Check out “Grinning face with Smiling Eyes”

Codepoint: U+1F604

Shortcode: :smile:

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6. Emoji can be used like any other character

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Welcome to 💣.com

You can:

  • Save files/folders with emoji
  • Code in emoji
  • Write poetry
  • Name a website with emoji
  • Nominate it for word of the year (and have it win!)

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7. Emoji can be hacked*

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ZWJ

Zero Width Joiner

AKA “Zwidge”

Codepoint: U+200D

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Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

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All about the `Zwidge`

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8. Emoji makes complex concepts easy to explain

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My favorite

emoji explanation:

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9. There are over 2800 emoji!

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Emoji sets

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First Emoji Set adopted by Unicode (Unicode 6.0) in 2010.

Current set: Emoji 12.0, added to Unicode set 12.0

230 New Emojis in 2019 (59 distinctly new)

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10. YOU can propose an emoji!

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Steps to proposing an emoji

  • Name the emoji
  • Submit a photo
  • Make your case:
    • Is this needed?
    • Will it be used?
    • How much will it be used?
    • Are there alternatives?
    • Is this Unique?
    • Is it a logo/brand/too specific

Takes Appx 1-2 Yrs

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Resources

Sites I used to learn more:

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Thank You! 💝

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Kara Carrell

https://kara.codes

kara@tablexi.com

@karaAJC

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