Otherwise I think these are oddly a good idea. I used to make frequent use of unicodesnowmanforyou.com to get my ️snowman emojis (I'd add one but hn does not permit). Would hardly be able to justify the domain registration expense though.
It's absolutely not an emoji. At best, it's an emoticon.
> Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"). The resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.
Emoji specifically refers to these 'pictures' that were definitely transmitted via Unicode, originating in the 90s from Japan.
> For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, each emoji is drawn on a 12×12 pixel grid. When transmitted, emoji symbols are specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in the Unicode character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS.
As you pointed out, this predates the Unicode standard that we have now, but there is still a very distinct difference between emoticons (which this is) and emojis (which this definitely isn't)
> Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticon called kaomoji (顔文字; lit. 顔(kao)=face, 文字(moji)=character(s)) that can be understood without tilting one's head to the left.
Interesting. So more accurately, this is a kaomoji.
Correct. In Japan, the term for a picture of a face made of multiple characters is kaomoji (顔文字: "face characters"), not emoji (絵文字: "picture character(s)").
These related words also exist:
スマイリー (sumairii/smiley: could be kaomoji or emoji, I think)
I don't understand why neither site uses accessible text for the emoticon. I think they're text but sealed by css/html from text highlighting for the "copy to clipboard" action. What if I only want part of the emoticon? What if I want to find the one I want (in textfac.es) by using my browser find?
I'm not sure I could use it. The paranoid part of me will always imagine it copying 'rm -rf /' and me accidentally pasting that into a terminal one day
Do you really need so many calls to external domains, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, just to let me copy a couple of characters? This looks like it was built and posted here just to cheaply harvest a couple of ad impressions.
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[ 0.20 ms ] story [ 70.9 ms ] threadClean and functional. Well done!
¯\(°_o)/¯
Otherwise I think these are oddly a good idea. I used to make frequent use of unicodesnowmanforyou.com to get my ️snowman emojis (I'd add one but hn does not permit). Would hardly be able to justify the domain registration expense though.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, "character"). The resemblance to the English words emotion and emoticon is purely coincidental.
Emoji specifically refers to these 'pictures' that were definitely transmitted via Unicode, originating in the 90s from Japan.
> For NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, each emoji is drawn on a 12×12 pixel grid. When transmitted, emoji symbols are specified as a two-byte sequence, in the private-use range E63E through E757 in the Unicode character space, or F89F through F9FC for Shift JIS.
As you pointed out, this predates the Unicode standard that we have now, but there is still a very distinct difference between emoticons (which this is) and emojis (which this definitely isn't)
Emoticon — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
Interesting. So more accurately, this is a kaomoji.
These related words also exist:
スマイリー (sumairii/smiley: could be kaomoji or emoji, I think)
エモーティコン (emoochikon/emoticon)
フェイスマーク (feisumaaku/"face mark").
cmd+tab cmd+1 cmd+f '\_'cmd+left shift+cmd+right cmd+c
Which seems like a lot of keypresses, but being entirely keyboard and mostly cmd, it's surprisingly muscle-memory friendly.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Original: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
s/ツ/シ/: ¯\_(シ)_/¯
s/ツ/゛じ/: ¯\_(゛じ)_/¯
[1]: https://github.com/luxflux/alfred-workflows
Copy the Shrug Emoji ‾\_(ツ)_/‾ https://copyshrugemoji.com/
Then I tweet it to twitter and can click through fine. What OS/browser are you on?
I use it all the time.
I'm not sure I could use it. The paranoid part of me will always imagine it copying 'rm -rf /' and me accidentally pasting that into a terminal one day