Naomi is a Software Development Engineer at Adobe on the Globalization, Core Services team where she works on the internationalization and localization of Creative Cloud products.
Agreed! I think including emoji in Unicode has been great for internationalization of software because it forces developers to properly encode emoji and ALL multi-byte characters to render on the page. Which expands the character set supported to many additional languages! π
I didn't have time to discuss this in the talk, but another huge benefit of emoji - is they're great motivators for users to upgrade their software to the latest version, then users get the newest emoji set from Unicode while ALSO getting enormous security benefits by upgrading! A few years ago Wordpress used emoji as motivation for users to upgrade when the real reason they needed to upgrade was a serious security vulnerability.
I also like the idea that emoji are used as written gestures π
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Agreed! I think including emoji in Unicode has been great for internationalization of software because it forces developers to properly encode emoji and ALL multi-byte characters to render on the page. Which expands the character set supported to many additional languages! π
I didn't have time to discuss this in the talk, but another huge benefit of emoji - is they're great motivators for users to upgrade their software to the latest version, then users get the newest emoji set from Unicode while ALSO getting enormous security benefits by upgrading! A few years ago Wordpress used emoji as motivation for users to upgrade when the real reason they needed to upgrade was a serious security vulnerability.
I also like the idea that emoji are used as written gestures π