How would the system distinguish between US and Canada dollar? Both would be <$> + U+FE0F VS16
Chris Leo Broukhis schreef op 2016-03-01 19:10: > I have a less disruptive proposal than to encode an unprecedented combining > emoji. > How about adding variation sequences <currency sign> + U+FE0F VS16 to signify > BANKNOTE with <currency sign> ? > > Leo > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:38 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <jknap...@web.de> wrote: > > For the pound emoji, throw in ~90M Egyptians. > > --Jörg Knappen > > GESENDET: Dienstag, 09. Februar 2016 um 23:46 Uhr > VON: "Leo Broukhis" <l...@mailcom.com> > AN: "Mark Davis ☕️" <m...@macchiato.com> > CC: "unicode Unicode Discussion" <unicode@unicode.org> > BETREFF: Re: Enclosing BANKNOTE emoji? > > The emojiexpress.com [1] site is useful to check which new emoji or > combinations people actually use, but the stats are likely skewed by only > measuring input from one platform. > Another way to look at the emojitracker.com [2] stats: > 339M people in the Eurozone : 389K uses of Euro emoji 126M people in Japan : > 354K uses of Yen emoji 140M people in UK + Turkey (likely users of the Pound > emoji as a stand-in for Lira) : 515K uses of pound emoji > The total is 605M people : 1258K uses of non-dollar emoji Assuming the same > average frequency of use, 2933K uses of the dollar emoji would be produced by > 1411M people, out of which us + canada + mexico + australia (500M) + other > countries using $ as (part of) the sign for their currency are way less than > a half. This means that substantially more than 500M people are using the > dollar emoji by default, instead of emoji of their national currencies. > Assuming a lesser frequency of use will result in a greater estimate of the > affected population. > Leo > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ <m...@macchiato.com [3]> wrote: > > Look at http://www.emojixpress.com/stats/. The stats are different, since > they collect data from keyboards not twitter posts, but they have a nice > button to view only the news emoji. > > (The numbers on the new ones will be smaller, just because it takes time for > systems to support them, and people to start using them. However, they bear > out my predication that the most popular would be the eyes-rolling face). > > Mark > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Leo Broukhis <l...@mailcom.com [4]> wrote: > > A caveat about using emojitracker.com [2] : it doesn't count newer emoji yet > (e.g. U+1F37E bottle with popping cork is absent), thus, when they are added, > their counts will be skewed. > Leo > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Leo Broukhis <l...@mailcom.com [4]> wrote: > > Thank you for the links, quite mesmerizing! > > On emojitracker.com [2] (cumulative counts, but only on twitter, AFAICS), > U+1F4B5 ($) had quite a respectable count of 2932622 (well above the middle > of the page, around 70%ile), U+1F4B7 (pound) had 514536 (around 30%ile), and > U+1F4B4 and U+1F4B6 had around 353K and 388K resp. (around 20%ile, but 10x > more than the lowest counts, and about the same frequency as various > individual clock faces). > It is quite evident that the dollar banknote emoji serves as a stand-in for > at least half a dozen of various currencies. > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ <m...@macchiato.com [3]> > wrote: > > I would suggest that you first gather statistics and present statistics on > how often the current combinations are used compared to other emoji, eg by > consulting sources such as: > > http://www.emojixpress.com/stats/ > or > http://emojitracker.com/ > > Mark > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Leo Broukhis <l...@mailcom.com [4]> wrote: > There are > > 💴 U+01F4B4 Banknote With Yen Sign > 💵 U+01F4B5 Banknote With Dollar Sign > 💶 U+01F4B6 Banknote With Euro Sign > 💷 U+01F4B7 Banknote With Pound Sign > > This is clearly an incomplete set. It makes sense to have a generic > "enclosing banknote" emoji character which, when combined with a > currency sign, would produce the corresponding banknote, to forestall > requests for individual emoji for banknotes with remaining currency > signs. > > Leo Links: ------ [1] http://emojiexpress.com [2] http://emojitracker.com [3] http://m...@macchiato.com [4] http://l...@mailcom.com
