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Instead of weighing up each region of the world based on regular selection factors (distinctiveness, likely frequency of use, etc); Unicode instead informs vendors of new proposals for subdivision flags at its quarterly Technical Committee meetings [3] and vendors are welcome to act on this information, should they wish to support additional subdivision flags. Note: Emojipedia is a voting member of the Unicode Consortium. Companies such as Apple and Google are full members with one vote each, while Emojipedia is a supporting member with a half vote. I represent Emojipedia at Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) meetings, but don't speak on behalf of any vendors, nor Unicode itself. ↩︎ The Danish poet and author Johannes V. Jensen was amongst other things famous for experimenting with the form of his writing. In a letter sent to publisher Ernst Bojesen in December 1900, he includes both a happy face and a sad face. It was not until the 1900s that the design evolved from a basic eye and mouth design, into a more recognisable design. [ citation needed]

If there is a code on the list, it is listed as an emoji automatically, without any proposal required. [1] Baërd, Elodie (21 February 2022). "Joaillerie: Messika célèbre les 50 ans de Smiley avec le sourire" (in French). Le Figaro. The earliest known smiley-like image in a written document was drawn by a Slovak notary to indicate his satisfaction with the state of his town's municipal financial records in 1635. [29] The gold smiling face was drawn on the bottom of the legal document, appearing next to lawyer's Jan Ladislaides signature. [30] This became a non-issue in 2017, when subdivisions such as Scotland and Texas gained support in the Unicode Standard, albeit using a different method. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Flag for Scotland (GB-SCT) We do a lot, but we also don’t do that much’: Nicolas Loufrani, CEO of the Smiley Company, photographed in Milan. Photograph: Alberto Bernasconi/The Observer

Given the way flags act as a rallying icon for communities of people, it's clear there will always be demand for new flag emojis. The Smiley Company's Evolution From Licensor to a €350m Lifestyle Brand". Business of Fashion. 15 March 2022.

Yellow graphical smileys have been used for many different purposes, including use in early 1980s video games. Yahoo! Messenger (from 1998) used smiley symbols in the user list next to each user, and also as an icon for the application. In November 2001, and later, smiley emojis inside the actual chat text was adopted by several chat systems, including Yahoo Messenger. Appearing on the emoji keyboard of any major platform is a sign of legitimacy. Why people want to see their flag as an emoji is clear. Determining the exact set of flags - or any category of emojis - to include on every device in the world is less clear. A gap in Unicode flag support exists when it comes to geographical regions of the world which don't have an ISO region code or subdivision code. If the ISO 3166-1 standard was updated to add a new country tomorrow, that would almost certainly end up on the emoji flag list. Aside: "Made Up" ISO 31661- codes Vendors aren't required to support all of these flags (Microsoft doesn't support any country flags on Windows, instead showing the two-letter country codes), but generally do support everything in the list for compatibility.More subdivision flags are relatively simple to support (from a technical perspective) if vendors feel any would be worthwhile additions, and aren't likely to cause unintended consequences. Flags have real-world implications, too. This naming convention is used within ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, whereby "X" at the start indicates a sequence not part of the standard, but permits a space where new ISO codes won't be allocated. The European Commission and SWIFT use "XK" as a stand-in for Kosovo. Also supported within Unicode. ↩︎ The smiley’s ability to be both innocent and well-meaning and ambiguous and hip all at the same time can be seen in its very beginnings. This resulted in a de facto standard in the range with lead bytes 0xF5 to 0xF9. [39] KDDI has gone much further than this, and has introduced hundreds more in the space with lead bytes 0xF3 and 0xF4. [40] In popular culture [ edit ] In the Russian newspaper "Ekaterinburgskaya Nedelya" dated May 28, 1896, the first case of the use of emoticons in Russia was recorded (it is possible that these are the first printed emoticons in history): in a humorous heading, four emoticons were depicted with typographical symbols and punctuation marks - and four emotions of a visitor to the Petersburg merchant fair. [ citation needed]

After all, Apple's iPhone only included 10 country flag emojis in 2008, and now there are 268. How were these 268 determined to be more eligible than any other flags? Chequered Flag is the easiest of the flags. It happens to look like a flag, but isn't encoded any differently to a 📻 Radio or 🎺 Trumpet. Despite the smiley’s capacity for anarchy and it’s potential to oscillate, as Savage wrote, “between Heaven and Hell”, its universal appeal as an icon of seductively uncomplicated joy remains undiminished. Employed in the novelty industry, Bernard and Murray Spain created their own badges by taking the yellow smiley face logo and adding their own slogan – “Have a nice day” – in September 1970. Smith v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. - 537 FSupp2d 1302 - March 20, 2008 - https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/14555

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As music genres began to create their own cultures from the 1970s onwards, many cultures began to incorporate a smiling face into their culture. In the late 1970s, the American band Dead Kennedys launched their first recording, " California über alles". The single cover was a collage aimed to look like that of a Nazi rally prior to World War II. It featured three of the vertical banners commonly used at such rallies, but with the usual swastikas replaced by large smileys. [42] In the UK, the happy face has been associated with psychedelic culture since Ubi Dwyer and the Windsor Free Festival in the 1970s and the electronic dance music culture, particularly with acid house, that emerged during the Second Summer of Love in the late 1980s. The association was cemented when the band Bomb the Bass used an extracted smiley from the comic book series Watchmen on the center of its " Beat Dis" hit single. If you put it in a nursery setting ... it fits in well. If you take it and put it on a riot policeman’s gas mask, then it becomes something completely different.” Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use The word smiley was used by Franklin Loufrani in France, when he registered his smiley design for trademark while working as a journalist for France Soir in 1971. The smiley accompanied positive news in the newspaper and eventually became the foundation for the licensing operation, The Smiley Company. For example, a Transgender pride flag could be encoded as a concept (eg a new code point for "Transgender Pride Flag" or "Transgender Flag" which could have any design), or by its colors (eg a ZWJ Sequence of 🏳️💙💗 or similar, or a code point describing the colors [5]), or something else.

During the London 2012 opening ceremony, early on in the show a number of giant yellow beach balls were released into the audience. Each had a large smiley face. [56] Walmart uses a smiley face as its mascot. [57] In 2022, Assouline published "50 Years of Good News," a breakdown of the cultural development of the smiley and its use. [58] While the option to send any flag as an image exists on most platforms, the issue is both about practicality (emojis are more flexible than images) but further: representation. [6] Besides, I felt better about the laughter of others when they looked at me. This was a keeper and I still have it.”

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For each flag shown on an average emoji keyboard, there are at least four different ways it might be encoded behind the scenes.