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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

To expand on that, the way they decided to implement emoji in a simple, flexible and extendable way, was to combine emoji codes.

You have the code for pregnant person and combine it with the code for the male or female symbol emoji, to make the pregnant man or women emoji. So in a way, it's easier to support all variations than only some.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

So in a way, it's easier to support all variations than only some.

Words to live by really