• tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
    118·
    2 months ago

    Emojis should be purely generic, and not represent an individual product or service.

    No apple logo. No BMW logo. Generic.

    Imagine if every brand had a fucking emoji, what a wasteland that would be. And then in years to come the unicode character space is littered with dead brands that have gone the way of the dinosaur but still living on in emoji like digital trash, because emoji are permanent. There’s no taking it out once it’s made.

    So I’d support an emoji to represent the notion of ‘digital currency’ but it should be generic, not Bitcoin.

    • LostXOR@fedia.io
      32·
      2 months ago

      There are some brand emojis in the Private Use Area, such as the Apple Logo and Twitter Logo, but they’re not a part of the standard and thus aren’t included in most fonts. Only Apple users can see this: 

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          it renders as the co logo on fruitcompany hardware

          although now I wanna go check the codepoint to see why it rendered as that on your side

          • Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
            13·
            2 months ago

            https://codepoints.net/U+f8ff

            On Apple devices some installed fonts contain the Apple logo at this position. However, it is not recommended to use it in this way, since people with other operating systems will most probably not see this character.

            The ConScript Unicode Registry suggests to use this codepoint for the Klingon Mummification Glyph. This encoding has been endorsed by the Klingon Language Institute.

            lol

    • Wilzax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      💷💶💵💴 Bitcoin should be an orange note with a ₿ on the left side, just like the other specific currency emojis.

      It will piss the crypto bros off that their special Internet money looks the same as fiat