How we're butchering the emoji language

By Michael Koziol
Updated May 28 2015 - 10:13am, first published May 22 2015 - 1:34pm
Many emoji have been misinterpreted, Unicode notes reveal. Photo: John Shakespeare
Many emoji have been misinterpreted, Unicode notes reveal. Photo: John Shakespeare
Unicode is preparing to release a major new version of its code.
Unicode is preparing to release a major new version of its code.

Emoji: we've been doing them wrongly. There are rules about these matters, as it transpires - codes and regulations, guidelines and grammar, stipulations and intonations. And we've been butchering the language of the icons worse than an American in Paris.

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