Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:39:36 +0000
I wouldn't stereotype "this community" already, as it's a single person
request and maybe a single person common use case.
However, I have seen mostly on Twitter the usage of :3 to indicate
"engagement" in the sense of "interest", or "I'm digging it" but if there's
a meaning widely recognised already internationally, I guess there's no
point in using the proposed name, yet there's no code point to represent :3
isn't it?
Whatever it means, do we have a code point for it already?
If we do, maybe that'd be already enough.
There are indeed already many emoji misused here and there due different
visual meaning in different cultures (the triumph face, as example, the one
with steam from nose which is used as "furious face" in some culture)
If there's no code point, being apparently this popular, should Unicode
consider one?
Regards
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Leonardo Boiko <leoboiko_at_namakajiri.net>
wrote:
> I find it curious that this community defines the ":3" emoji as "mmmm" or
> "om nom nom". In my circles it's quite the frequent emoticon/emoji, but
> I've never seen it used this way. Instead, they usually employ it as "cat
> mouth" or "cat face", implying the mood of cuteness, perkiness or
> mischievousness. (This is distinct from U+1F431 CAT FACE in that it
> represents a human making a cat-like mouth, not an actual cat.) Here are a
> few images found through a web search for "cat face":
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> Here's the relevant TVTropes article:
> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatSmile
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> (TVTropes, incidentally, is one of the many web forums which has a :3
> textual emoji.)
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> And the KnowYourMeme page:
> http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/3-cat-face
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> 2017-01-24 14:39 GMT-02:00 Andrea Giammarchi <andrea.giammarchi_at_gmail.com>
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>> I'd like to bring to your attention a request, about a common emoticon,
>> that has apparently no equivalent yet in the Emoji standard.
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>> This was a PR to the Twemoji project:
>> https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/issues/199
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>> The author also created a proper PDF explaining all the reasons:
>> Proposal for CURLY LIPS Emoji.pdf
>> <https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/files/727077/Proposal.for.CURLY.LIPS.Emoji.pdf>
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>> I hope this can be considered in the near future as possible extra face.
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>> Thanks in advance for any sort of outcome.
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>> Best Regards
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