Both were readily in common use on Japanese phones. Most of Unicode is existing ...

barbs · on March 27, 2013

Looks like they're part of the Emoji set

TazeTSchnitzel · on March 27, 2013

Well, exactly. Emoji are the pictographic emoticons that were in common use on Japanese phones in proprietary encodings.

omegavesko · on March 27, 2013

Well sure, but since when is emoji part of unicode?

Emoji is a lot more mainstream now, too. Both Android and iOS support them, not just 'Japanese phones'.

TazeTSchnitzel · on March 27, 2013

Uh, what?

>since when is emoji part of unicode?

>Emoji is a lot more mainstream now, too. Both Android and iOS support them, not just 'Japanese phones'.

Um, yes. I said "that were". I realise it is now mainstream now because it is now in Unicode.