On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:01:39AM +0200, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: > More emoji from Chrome: > > http://chrome.blogspot.ch/2014/04/a-faster-mobiler-web-with-emoji.html > > with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NXNnoGr3Y
I do not know… The demos leave me completely unimpressed: emoji — by their nature — require higher resolution than text, so an emoji for “pie” does not save any place comparing to the word itself. So the impact of this on everyday English-languare communication would not be in any way beneficial. However, this MAY be a beginning of revolution in scientific communication. Science-and-about publications contains very long words in abundance, and it is HERE where impact of emojification should be felt the most! So I think the task of emojification of scientific terms — be it “secularization”, “gamma-globulin”, or “derived ∞-category” — should be at elevated priority in the Unicode commitees. The general public often considers scientific publications are too dense, and does not bother to read many scienific journals. What Google did is a beginning of a major step forward in making contemporary science (finally!) accessible to general public. Ilya _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode