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Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post) (thedabbler.patatas.ca)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by smallpatatas@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

F that

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Where are you unable to use emojis?

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.social 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.ee 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.social 3 points 3 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

[–] echodot@feddit.uk -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago