I’ve noticed that the “Emoji & Symbols” pop-up window for MacOS (ctrl + cmd + spacebar) and Windows 11 (Windows logo + period) have similar-looking, yet slightly (or vastly) different emojis and symbols, some of which are in one OS but not the other. Emojis and symbols are a very regular part of many users’ methods of communication and documentation, to the point where some applications, such as Twitter (example of communication) and Notion (example of documentation) defer to auto-correcting one set of emojis from an OS to a set that makes the user experience consistent across different operating systems.
Why isn’t there an agreed-upon system or set of emojis/symbols that make the experience OS-agnostic?
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This has been answered great by others here, but id like to just give some sense that can be used for any situation like this: when you ask “why not?” just ask yourself instead “why?”. What would be the reason to go through a whole process with tons of agreements and compromises to simply standardise an emoji font? I dont really see any good argument to spend that effort and resources, they look the same anyway, and all parties spent money developing them.
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