twemoji VS unicode-proposals

I immediately started working on a prototype, since the graphics were just fancy "strings". (Though I changed them to twemoji svgs later, nevermind.) The year long rabbit-hole of dedication, delusion and disillusion was begun.

FYI, Firefox's bundled emoji font, Twemoji Mozilla, is based on Twitter's Twemoji, which hasn't updated to Unicode 15.

On their Github repo check the CDN section: https://github.com/twitter/twemoji

MaxCDN is down.

A friend of mine put in a pull request to change it a few months back

The twemoji Github is here.

The twitter emoji is open sourced and you can request emojis at their Github, make an issue with label 'feature request' and they will decide whether to put it or not

build your own font from the source, which supports v14.0.

Because... not wanting to have to deal with racism? News flash: There's no official ISO 3166 code for a confederate flag, regardless of IOS or Android. You're not typing one.

You mean the "Cool S", right? Well, the standard for encoding text (and emoji) on computers is Unicode - they have a list of selection factors for what make good emoji candidates. The Cool S, sadly, doesn't seem to fulfill the requirements, being an exact image (instead of a representation of a broad concept) and not having any sort of apparent use. It might fare better as a non-emoji symbol (like 🗫), those seem to have less strict requirements. In any case, I can't find any evidence that somebody's gone to the effort to write up a full proposal, just this somewhat half-hearted suggestion from 2018.

Source: https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/256

Soviet flag emoji proposal

I see lots of misinformation following this about copyright and fonts. In the United States, fonts are copyright-able as programs but not as letterforms. You cannot copyright the basic elements of language, so anyone can make his own executable program (i.e. a font file) that has literally any glyph in it without infringing on copyright. Note that some things that we make think of as glyphs (e.g. the recycling sign or the textile care symbols) can be trademarks and protected under that class of intellectual property law.

There's more proposals here:

https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/

There's a rather whimsical one proposed called the Priest Emoji!

https://github.com/Crissov/unicode-proposals/issues/425

Instead of having proposals, why not just implement every thing/subject/object we can think of?