On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Ryusei Yamaguchi <mande...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, Unicode > > 3rd March is hina-matsuri (雛祭り; Doll's Day) in Japan, and there is an emoji > for it: Japanese Dolls. I wrote an article on failures of that emoji: > http://mandel59.hateblo.jp/entry/2016/03/04/041437 > > Some vendors ship Japanese Dolls emoji that don't seem to be hina-matsuri > dolls. I wish difficulty of implementation of culture-dependent emoji be > given wider publicity by this post.
But, the name of the emoji is "JAPANESE DOLLS", not hina-matsuri, so you are expecting a particular visual, which is not promised anywhere. Is a bit like if I complained that some "MOUNTAIN" emojis are wrong because they don't look like Monte Bianco. Cheers
