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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The standardisation of emojis is just for the “description”, the actual picture itself is done by whoever happens to be implementing the emojis in the given situation. They haven’t all standardised in part because each company has spent money developing their own ones and don’t want to throw that away.
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