While most will display #2 and #3 consistently, #1 does vary from platform to platform.įor instance, iOS chooses to display any pictograph as an emoji if an emoji version is available (regardless of whether the emoji presentation is specified). Base character (no variation selector): ✈.Here's the three combinations we are referring to: The most consistent approach would be for an OS to display pictographs as a black and white text character unless a VS-16 Emoji Presentation character is appended. What about if neither are applied? That's where the confusion sets in. U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (forces emoji display) Ībove: Variation Selector-16 is an invisible character that informs the system to display a previously text-only character as an emoji.
U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 (forces text display).The two characters relevant to this discussion are: The method chosen to handle this was to use the same base character for both text and emoji and allow an invisible character to determine whether it should be shown as text or emoji. When emoji characters entered the Unicode standard, a number of these overlapped with existing pictographs. Examples include ✈ U+2708 AIRPLANE, ☁ U+2601 CLOUD and ☂ U+2602 UMBRELLA. These characters have been in the Unicode Standard since the beginning. “Pictographs are symbols, such as U+26E8 ⛨ BLACK CROSS ON SHIELD, that are pictorial representations of objects, sometimes quite simplified.” To communicate visually within text, you could send an emoticon :-) or kaomoji (o･ω･o) or a black and white pictograph ☺ encoded in the Unicode Standard.
What does it mean for previous uses of ♟ U+265F BLACK CHESS PAWN? Will they now show with a shaded emoji version in future? They might, but that depending on where you see it.Įmoji isn't the only game in town when it comes to pictures-in-text. It's going to be Emojified.Ībove: Chess Pawn is a new emoji coming in 2018. This has been around in the Unicode Standard since 1993, but is about to get an upgrade. Included in the new 2018 emoji list is a chess pawn. What does it mean to be turned into an emoji? 157 new emojis are coming in 2018, but two of these are already Unicode characters.
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