It doesn't have to. How does the system distinguish between US and Canada dollar in plain text? Both are <$>.
Leo On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Chris Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > How would the system distinguish between US and Canada dollar? > > Both would be <$> + U+FE0F VS16 > > Chris > > > Leo Broukhis schreef op 2016-03-01 19:10: > > I have a less disruptive proposal than to encode an unprecedented > combining emoji. > How about adding variation sequences <currency sign> + U+FE0F VS16 to > signify BANKNOTE with <currency sign> ? > > Leo > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:38 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For the pound emoji, throw in ~90M Egyptians. >> >> --Jörg Knappen >> >> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 09. Februar 2016 um 23:46 Uhr >> *Von:* "Leo Broukhis" <[email protected]> >> *An:* "Mark Davis ☕️" <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* "unicode Unicode Discussion" <[email protected]> >> *Betreff:* Re: Enclosing BANKNOTE emoji? >> The emojiexpress.com site is useful to check which new emoji or >> combinations people actually use, but the stats are likely skewed by only >> measuring input from one platform. >> >> Another way to look at the emojitracker.com stats: >> >> 339M people in the Eurozone : 389K uses of Euro emoji >> 126M people in Japan : 354K uses of Yen emoji >> 140M people in UK + Turkey (likely users of the Pound emoji as a stand-in >> for Lira) : 515K uses of pound emoji >> >> The total is 605M people : 1258K uses of non-dollar emoji >> Assuming the same average frequency of use, 2933K uses of the dollar >> emoji would be produced by 1411M people, out of which us + canada + mexico >> + australia (500M) + other countries using $ as (part of) the sign for >> their currency are way less than a half. This means that substantially more >> than 500M people are using the dollar emoji by default, instead of emoji of >> their national currencies. Assuming a lesser frequency of use will result >> in a greater estimate of the affected population. >> >> Leo >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Look at http://www.emojixpress.com/stats/. The stats are different, >>> since they collect data from keyboards not twitter posts, but they have a >>> nice button to view only the news emoji. >>> >>> (The numbers on the new ones will be smaller, just because it takes time >>> for systems to support them, and people to start using them. However, they >>> bear out my predication that the most popular would be the eyes-rolling >>> face). >>> >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> A caveat about using emojitracker.com : it doesn't count newer emoji >>>> yet (e.g. U+1F37E bottle with popping cork is absent), thus, when they are >>>> added, their counts will be skewed. >>>> >>>> Leo >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for the links, quite mesmerizing! >>>>> >>>>> On emojitracker.com (cumulative counts, but only on twitter, AFAICS), >>>>> U+1F4B5 ($) had quite a respectable count of 2932622 (well above the >>>>> middle >>>>> of the page, around 70%ile), U+1F4B7 (pound) had 514536 (around 30%ile), >>>>> and U+1F4B4 and U+1F4B6 had around 353K and 388K resp. (around 20%ile, but >>>>> 10x more than the lowest counts, and about the same frequency as various >>>>> individual clock faces). >>>>> >>>>> It is quite evident that the dollar banknote emoji serves as a >>>>> stand-in for at least half a dozen of various currencies. >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I would suggest that you first gather statistics and present >>>>>> statistics on how often the current combinations are used compared to >>>>>> other >>>>>> emoji, eg by consulting sources such as: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.emojixpress.com/stats/ >>>>>> or >>>>>> http://emojitracker.com/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Mark >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There are >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 💴 U+01F4B4 Banknote With Yen Sign >>>>>>> 💵 U+01F4B5 Banknote With Dollar Sign >>>>>>> 💶 U+01F4B6 Banknote With Euro Sign >>>>>>> 💷 U+01F4B7 Banknote With Pound Sign >>>>>>> >>>>>>> This is clearly an incomplete set. It makes sense to have a generic >>>>>>> "enclosing banknote" emoji character which, when combined with a >>>>>>> currency sign, would produce the corresponding banknote, to forestall >>>>>>> requests for individual emoji for banknotes with remaining currency >>>>>>> signs. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Leo >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>
