Emoji is fun!

The world of Emoji is so interesting, thanks to a set of cool mechanics presented by Unicode, in which emoji are defined. You can combine emoji to make new ones, or use certain special codes to change how an emoji looks. Today, let's delve into exactly what this looks like under the hood, and try your own hands at doing the same using a special Emoji Combiner web application written specifically for this video!
= LINKS & RESOURCES =
My Emoji Combiner Webapp: resources.nerdfirst.net/emoji
Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear: andysalerno.com/posts/weird-e...
Full emoji list, v14.0: unicode.org/emoji/charts/full...
More info on variant selectors: unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest...
= CONTENTS PAGE =
00:00 Introduction
00:37 Text, Encoding and Unicode
02:32 The Emoji Combiner Webapp
03:03 Difficulties of Rendering Emoji
04:23 Combining Characters
06:02 Example: Skin Tone Modifiers
06:21 Variant Selectors
07:48 Example: Keycap Emoji
08:42 Combining Emoji: Zero Width Joiner
09:44 Putting it All Together!
10:57 Limitations
11:42 Unicode Fails Elegantly
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[@arthur3545]

This production quality was insane! It's been a while since a video kept me so entertained. subscribed!

[@NERDfirst]

Hello and thank you very much for your comment! Really glad you liked the video :)

[@codycodes]

this was fun

[@NERDfirst]

Hello and thank you for your comment! Yes, it was fun to shoot and code out as well. So interesting to see the problem-solving approaches used by the Unicode team!

[@JB-ro7kv]

would you believe I found your web site tool first, then followed over to your youtube 😊

[@NERDfirst]

Hello and thank you for your comment! Well maybe that means search engines are finally seeing my site, which is a good thing!

[@padoharaja4503]

pretty cool

[@NERDfirst]

Hello and thank you for your comment! Glad you liked the video =)

[@goodmoron]

hahaa...this was so cool!!!

[@NERDfirst]

Hello and thank you for your comment! For sure! Definitely a fun one.

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[@Arganoid]

Interesting that it doesn't let you put any arbitrary emoji on a flag

[@NERDfirst]

Hello and thank you for your comment! Yes, unfortunately it doesn't do that - I don't think the "combined" emoji are being generated on the fly. They're all pre-defined glyphs that are called up when a certain combination of code points are encountered.