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Paulding County News Podcast Wednesday 4, 2023  Paulding County police seeking public's help identifying overdose victim:    In July, a man was found dead in a Zaxby's dumpster in Dallas, Georgia. The autopsy revealed an overdose as the cause of death, ruling out foul play. Despite efforts by Paulding County detectives and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the man remains unidentified. Described as in his 30s or 40s, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 190 pounds, with strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes, he was discovered in black shorts, a T-shirt, sandals, and a black bandana. Authorities seek public assistance and ask anyone with information to contact the Paulding County Sheriff's Office............This from 11 Alive    Burn Ban Lifted:    The Burn ban has been lifted and just in time for bonfires! In Paulding County strict guidelines regulate burning activities to prevent hazards and environmental damage. Only natural products like leaves and tree limbs can be burned, with burning other materials punishable by fines up to $10,000 by the State's Environmental Protection Division. Before burning, ensure fires are attended by adults and placed at safe distances from structures and flammable areas. Specific size limitations and regulations apply to hand-piled and machine-piled burns, while burning of structures is strictly prohibited. Campfires and bonfires have additional guidelines and require approval. Non-compliance may lead to civil action in magistrate court.........This from Paulding Fire/Resue Facebook Page    PACA Open House In Dallas:  Last week, Paulding County's Child Advocacy Center (PCAC) held an open house, attended by local officials and state representatives, including legislative delegation members. The center, now independent since May 2017, offers services for children who may be victims of abuse, expanding beyond forensic interviewing to include onsite therapy and specialized training. The visit by legislative members, including Rep. Martin Momtahan, Rep. Kimberly New, and Sen. Jason Anavitarte, highlights the center's crucial role in court cases, as emphasized by Paulding County District Attorney Matthew Rollins..............This from the Dallas New Era      Weather:    This weekend we will see colder temperatures start rolling in with this weekend staying in the 60's for the highs! This weekend may be the perfect time to start pulling out your fall and winter clothes and putting away your summer clothes! #weatherreport #coolingoff #perfectweather    Paulding County Arrest Reports:  Gary Jackson was booked on 10/1/2023 for a DUI of Alcohol concentration of .08 or more within 3 hours or more as well as speeding.    Gregory Boyd was also booked on 10/1/2023 for passing in a no-passing zone and a hit-and-run.  AGAIN, PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE ONLY BEEN ARRESTED AND ARE NOT CONVICTED. THEY HAVE NOT HAD THEIR DAY IN COURT WHEN WE RECORDED THIS PODCAST. WE WISH THEM LUCK ON THEIR DAY IN THE COURT.    Train, tractor-trailer crash shuts down Cobb County roads for hours:  In Kennesaw, a train-tractor-trailer collision led to significant downtown road closures on Monday. Cherokee Street, between Main Street and Big Shanty Drive, was shut down as emergency crews cleared the wreckage and conducted an investigation. The incident occurred when the tractor-trailer became stuck on the tracks and was subsequently hit by the train. Fortunately, no injuries were reported, but the tractor-trailer driver faces charges of failure to obey traffic control device and illegal crossing. Motorists were advised to find alternate routes, and by 5:30 p.m., the roads had reopened. CSX is investigating the crash, as stated by the police...........This from Atlanta News First This is about 30 minutes from the Paulding County line. This is why you should always read road signs. Please be careful, thankfully no one was hurt but if you have a slight idea that this might not work, please use a different way!    Six Flags Over Georgia employee killed in 'car accident' in the park, officials say:  Tragedy struck at Six Flags Over Georgia during preparations for Fright Fest as a 27-year-old female park employee, driving a van carrying seven cast and crew members, was involved in a fatal accident. The van, transporting scare actors, made a maneuver resulting in one passenger, Andrea Crook, being ejected and sustaining severe head trauma. Crook, 43, later succumbed to her injuries at Grady Memorial Hospital. Investigators are assessing factors to determine potential charges against the driver. The park expressed condolences, providing support to those affected and cooperating with the police investigation. Friends remember Crook as a beloved wife and mother of three.............This from Fox 5  Hey Paulding, I know this is unfortunate, but Halloween horror nights have already started. So, take the family for some fun scares and rides. It will take around 35 to 45 minutes to get there from Downtown Dallas, so you better make sure you leave the house in plenty of time.     Sports:  From the Paulding Sports Chronicles  Here are your Paulding County football teams' scores from last week!  North Fell to Walton 24 to 44  Hiram won against Dalton 49-39   East won against Newan 36-17  South ran over Paulding County 21-0    Weird news:  Pecan You Believe It? Stuckey's Petitions for a Nutty New Emoji    Georgia-based Stuckey's has launched a petition on Change.org urging the creation of a pecan emoji by the Unicode Consortium. Describing pecans as "America's favorite nut," Stuckey's highlights their nutritional value and the 75% increase in global consumption over a decade. The petition humorously emphasizes the void in digital communication due to the absence of a pecan emoji, inviting pecan enthusiasts and fall season lovers to unite and make the emoji dream a reality. Stuckey's hopes to add a touch of nuttiness to the digital world, encouraging supporters to sign the petition and contribute to the pecan-shaped icon's creation..........This from the Georgia Sun  Well PC if you have a pecan tree in your yard you may be able to text your friends and family that they are ready with an emoji now. Maybe they will put it next to the Georgia Peach emoji in the emoji library.     Here are some things you're talking about: Call us with your thoughts or story at ‪(770) 799-6810  From What's Happening in Paulding County Facebook Page:  Anonymous Poster Said, “Why do the original residents of Paulding County have the desire to relocate ?”  These are your responses from actual Paulding County citizens - as reported on What's Happening Paulding County   Jonathan Jones from Dalas” I was born and raised here and want so badly to get out as of late. Too many people moving here, too much construction constantly, houses and car washes going everywhere, you name it. My wife and I wanna move out of the state, but damn the housing market is crazy, so we are just stuck for now I guess. “  Brandon Bowman from Hiram “Over crowing people moving here thinking they can change/ overrule people oh and taxes”  Bri Wheeler from Lithia Springs “It's crazy I see so many people complaining but haven't heard for anyone actually leaving, anyways my family has been here 15+ years so I wouldn't exactly say we're original however we've been here for awhile & I'm actually more of a fan now. It's more modernized a little & seems to be less racism, as more races are coming to the area instead of just predominantly white”  Angie S. Peterson from Dallas “I grew up here and have never seen this many rude people. People move from areas they don't want to live in anymore and come here and try to change ours to what they're used to. Stop!!”  From the What's Happening in Paulding County Facebook page:  An Anonymous member posted “I've never experienced this working fast food in any other county except this one … can y'all please tell me why y'all don't like to clean up after yourself when you dine in to a fast food restaurant?   I'm just curious do you feel like it is the employees jobs to clean up your half eaten food?   Also why do certain people feel like it's ok to curse at the teenagers working these jobs ?  With that being said I wish y'all would be alittle more considerate to your fast food spot being that most of us are understaffed and doing our best.”    These are your responses from actual Paulding County citizens - as reported on What's Happening Paulding County  Cleocie Donovan Jones from Dallas “These are also the same people who don't know how to put their own carts away when they go grocery shopping. No respect whatsoever”  Wolly Haverhalls from Powder Springs “This happened when they took god and the pledge out of the schools . Deleted history and factual science.”  Joshua Morris From Dallas “Customer's aren't always right”  Cory Hobgood from Atlanta “Sometimes our best isn't good enough, if I stopped at my “best” I'd still be studying for a history exam in 10th grade.”  Thanks for being one of the 9500 downloads we have had to the Paulding co news podcast since we launched in JULY. We are watching your social media post. Who knows, your friends and family could make the news, just based off their post. Soo make sure you listen subscribe and tell your friends about Paulding County News podcast. #facebook #pages #whatareyoutalkingabout #thisisyourstory #yourstory #yourcommunity #needsyourattention  Events:   Family Movie night  Halloween costume shop   #eventshappeningnearyou #weekendevents #weekdayevents #pauldingcountyuncensoredfacebookpage #whatyouaretalkingabout #whatsgoingoninpauldingcounty #events #loveevents #getyououtofthehouse #funforthefamily  Wild News, The Paulding County news podcast will sponsor any Paulding resident who would like to take on this Gusiness book of world records feat. A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after leaving her walker on the ground and making a tandem jump in northern Illinois.    A 104-year-old Chicago woman, Dorothy Hoffner, aims to be recognized as the oldest person to skydive after completing a tandem jump in northern Illinois. Hoffner, who first skydived at 100, left her walker behind and led the jump from 13,500 feet with confidence. The Guinness World Record for the oldest skydiver is currently held by a 103-year-old from Sweden, but Skydive Chicago is working to certify Hoffner's jump. After the successful dive, Hoffner expressed joy and revealed plans for a potential hot-air balloon ride in the future, emphasizing that age is just a number.  If you know of a Paulding County Resident who is 100-Year-old we want to know about it. We wanna want to interview them and talk about how the world has changed, email info@bgadgroup.com or call our listener line 770-799-6810 for more info.     Interview: Tim Weaver Running for Mayor in Hiram   www.esogrepair.com      www.chattahoochietech.edu www.cuofga.org www.daycosystems.com  www.angie.atlcommunities.com  www.powerselectricga.com http://www.newseason.cc/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

table td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } hr.thin { border: 0; height: 0; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); } New hosts There were no new hosts this month. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 3826 Mon 2023-04-03 HPR Community News for March 2023 HPR Volunteers 3827 Tue 2023-04-04 Reply to hpr 3798 Brian in Ohio 3828 Wed 2023-04-05 The Oh No! News. Some Guy On The Internet 3829 Thu 2023-04-06 The Edinburgh cohort of HPR hosts stops Mumbling! Dave Morriss 3830 Fri 2023-04-07 Into New Mexico Ahuka 3831 Mon 2023-04-10 Introducing Bumble Bee. Some Guy On The Internet 3832 Tue 2023-04-11 How I left Google behind minnix 3833 Wed 2023-04-12 Software Freedom Podcast Ken Fallon 3834 Thu 2023-04-13 2022-2023 New Years Show Episode 5 HPR Volunteers 3835 Fri 2023-04-14 Retro Karaoke machine Part 2 Archer72 3836 Mon 2023-04-17 Using 'zoxide', an alternative to 'cd' Dave Morriss 3837 Tue 2023-04-18 Make a vortex cannon Mike Ray 3838 Wed 2023-04-19 Biking to Work Jon Kulp 3839 Thu 2023-04-20 Rip a CD in the terminal Archer72 3840 Fri 2023-04-21 Playing the Original Civilization Ahuka 3841 Mon 2023-04-24 The Oh No! News. Some Guy On The Internet 3842 Tue 2023-04-25 What's in my bag series MrX 3843 Wed 2023-04-26 LinuxLUGCast pre-show ramblings Honkeymagoo 3844 Thu 2023-04-27 2022-2023 New Years Show Episode 6 HPR Volunteers 3845 Fri 2023-04-28 Using tmux, the terminal multiplexer Overview Archer72 Comments this month These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 16 comments in total. Past shows There are 6 comments on 4 previous shows: hpr3819 (2023-03-23) "Remapping Mouse Buttons with XBindKeys on Linux" by Jon Kulp. Comment 1: Zen_floater2 on 2023-04-03: "LOOK EVERYBODY!!!" hpr3822 (2023-03-28) "A tale of wonder, angst and woe" by Bookewyrmm. Comment 2: Bookewyrmm on 2023-04-17: "small update" hpr3823 (2023-03-29) "Gitlab Pages for website hosting" by norrist. Comment 1: rho`n on 2023-04-01: "Congfiguring HPR site generator" hpr3825 (2023-03-31) "Creating a natural aquarium" by minnix. Comment 3: minnix on 2023-04-01: "video demonstration" Comment 4: Ahuka on 2023-04-03: "Brings back memories" Comment 5: minnix on 2023-04-06: "Hi Ahuka" This month's shows There are 10 comments on 8 of this month's shows: hpr3826 (2023-04-03) "HPR Community News for March 2023" by HPR Volunteers. Comment 1: Kevin O'Brien on 2023-04-04: "Updating your profile" hpr3828 (2023-04-05) "The Oh No! News." by Some Guy On The Internet. Comment 1: brian-in-ohio on 2023-04-14: "entertaining" hpr3831 (2023-04-10) "Introducing Bumble Bee." by Some Guy On The Internet. Comment 1: Trey on 2023-04-10: "Great interview"Comment 2: brian-in-ohio on 2023-04-14: "liked it"Comment 3: Dave Morriss on 2023-04-16: "Excellent show" hpr3832 (2023-04-11) "How I left Google behind" by minnix. Comment 1: brian-in-ohio on 2023-04-14: "thank you" hpr3837 (2023-04-18) "Make a vortex cannon" by Mike Ray. Comment 1: brian-in-ohio on 2023-04-27: "intro" hpr3841 (2023-04-24) "The Oh No! News." by Some Guy On The Internet. Comment 1: Ken Fallon on 2023-03-31: "Move Play button" hpr3843 (2023-04-26) "LinuxLUGCast pre-show ramblings" by Honkeymagoo. Comment 1: brian-in-ohio on 2023-04-27: "thanks" hpr3844 (2023-04-27) "2022-2023 New Years Show Episode 6" by HPR Volunteers. Comment 1: brian-in-ohio on 2023-04-27: "interesting show" Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. The threaded discussions this month can be found here: https://hackerpublicradio.org/pipermail/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org/2023-April/thread.html Events Calendar With the kind permission of LWN.net we are linking to The LWN.net Community Calendar. Quoting the site: This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page. Any other business Unicode characters in shows It came to light during the month that shows with Unicode characters in their title, summary or notes were not being represented properly on the website. This is the definition of Unicode on Wikipedia: Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, which is maintained by the Unicode Consortium, defines as of the current version (15.0) 149,186 characters covering 161 modern and historic scripts, as well as symbols, thousands of emoji (including in colors), and non-visual control and formatting codes. The software and database behind the HPR website come from a time before Unicode, but had been updated to use this encoding a number of years ago. However, it was discovered that some changes had been overlooked. We are currently making changes to ensure that Unicode is properly displayed on the web site, and in audio tags. It will be necessary to find and correct encoding errors in the database, and this process will be carried out as soon as possible. ✓

OpenTelemetry is one of the most fascinating and ambitious open source projects of this era. It's currently the second most active project in the CNCF (the Cloud Native Computing Foundation), with only Kubernetes being more active. The entire industry is aligning behind this project, including incumbent monitoring vendors that were deeply vested in proprietary and closed-source agents to that end. In this episode of OpenObservability Talks I'll host Alolita Sharma to discuss OpenTelemetry, its origins and mission statement, as well as updates hot off the press from the recent KubeCon conference in Valencia about releases and future plans. Alolita is co-chair of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group for Observability, member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee and a board director of the Unicode Consortium. She has served on the boards of the OSI and SFLC.in. Alolita has led engineering teams at Wikipedia, Twitter, PayPal, IBM and AWS. Two decades of doing open source continue to inspire her. The episode was live-streamed on 15 June 2022 and the video is available at https://youtu.be/IK2TWOzDUBI  OpenObservability Talks episodes are released monthly, on the last Thursday of each month and are available for listening on your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. We live-stream the episodes on Twitch and YouTube Live - tune in to see us live, and pitch in with your comments and questions on the live chat.https://www.twitch.tv/openobservabilityhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKOtaBdQAJVRJqhJDuOlPg You can read the recap post: https://logz.io/blog/opentelemetry-roadmap-and-latest-updates/?utm_source=devrel&utm_medium=devrel Show Notes: Hot updates from KubeCon EMEA 2022 Alolita Sharma introduction The state of OpenTelemetry When OpenTelemetry Logging is expecting GA The onboarding challenge of instrumentation Client side instrumentation and real user monitoring Adding continuous profiling telemetry to OpenTelemetry Interoperability between OpenTelemetry and Prometheus Challenges in OpenTelemetry and observability Where OpenTelemetry is heading next Jaeger OSS now accept OTLP (OpenTelemetry protocol) Resources: OpenTelemetry Metrics reaches RC: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2022/metrics-announcement/ OpenTelemetry guide: https://logz.io/learn/opentelemetry-guide/ CI/CD Observability: https://horovits.medium.com/fighting-slow-and-flaky-ci-cd-pipelines-starts-with-observability-19da2ac94677 Jaeger can now accept OpenTelemetry protocol https://medium.com/jaegertracing/introducing-native-support-for-opentelemetry-in-jaeger-eb661be8183c OTel Community Day summary: http://paulsbruce.io/blog/2022/06/opentelemetry-community-day-austin-2022 Contextual Logging in Kubernetes 1.24 https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/05/25/contextual-logging/  PolarSignals announced FrostDB https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2022/05/04/introducing-arcticdb/  Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenObserv Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/openobservability YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKOtaBdQAJVRJqhJDuOlPg Dotan Horovits ============ Twitter: @horovits LinkedIn: in/horovits Mastodon: @horovits@fosstodon Alolita Sharma ============ Twitter: @alolita LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alolita/

If there's an emoji you want added, now's the time to submit your ideas to the "Unicode Consortium." The submission process is fairly complicated though. A few that have already been rejected before include an "angry POOP" emoji . . . a "hangover" emoji . . . and two different "dumpster fire" emojis.

PHP Internals News: Episode 98: Deprecating utf8_encode and utf8_decode London, UK Thursday, March 3rd 2022, 09:02 GMT In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Rowan Tommins (GitHub, Website, Twitter) about the "Deprecate and Remove utf8_encode and utf8_decode" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml, you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes. There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Transcript Derick Rethans 0:14 Hi, I'm Derick. Welcome to PHP Internals News, a podcast dedicated to explaining the latest developments in the PHP language. This is episode 98. Today I'm talking with Rowan Tommins about the "Deprecate and remove UTF8_encode and UTF8_decode" RFC that he's proposing. Hi, Rowan, would you please introduce yourself? Rowan Tommins 0:38 Hi, I'm Rowan Tommins. I'm a PHP software architect by day and try and contribute back to the community and have been hanging around in the internals mailing list for about 10 years and contributed to make the language better, where I can. Derick Rethans 0:57 Excellent. Yeah, that's how I started out as well, many, many more years before that, to be honest. This RFC, what problem is this trying to solve? Rowan Tommins 1:08 PHP has these two functions, utf8_encode and utf8_decode, which, in themselves, they're not broken. They do what they are designed to do. But they are very frequently misunderstood. Mostly because of their name. And because Character Encodings in general, are not very well understood. People use them wrong, and end up getting in all sorts of pickles that are worse than if the functions weren't there in first place. Derick Rethans 1:37 What are you proposing with the RFC then? Rowan Tommins 1:39 Fundamentally, I'm proposing to remove the functions. As of PHP 8.2, there will be a deprecation notice whenever you use them, and then in 9.0, they would be gone forever, and you wouldn't be able to use them by mistake, because they just wouldn't be there. Derick Rethans 1:56 I reckon there's going to be a way to actually do what people originally intended to do with it at some point, right? Rowan Tommins 2:02 So yeah, there are alternatives to these functions, which are much clearer in what you're doing, and much more flexible in what you can do with them so that they cover the cases that these functions sound like they're going to do, but don't actually do when you understand what they're really doing. Derick Rethans 2:20 I think we'll get back to that a little bit later on. You're wanting to deprecate these functions. But what do these functions actually do? Rowan Tommins 2:27 What they actually do is convert between a character encoding called Latin-1, ISO 8859-1, and UTF-8. So utf8_encode converts from Latin-1 into UTF-8, utf8_decode does the opposite. And that's all they do. Their names make it sound like they're some kind of fix all the UTF 8 things in my text. But they are actually just these one very specific conversion, which is occasionally useful, but not clear from their names. Derick Rethans 3:01 It's certainly how I have seen it used in the past, where people just throw everything and the kitchen sink at it, and expecting it to be valid UTF 8, and then at the end, decode. I mean, the decoding was not even part much of this, right? It's just throw everything at it, and then magically it will all be UTF 8. But I reckon that's not really quite the case. When and how does that go wrong? Rowan Tommins 3:26 So what actually ends up happening is, because text doesn't know what encoding it's in. Something that people misunderstand about character encoding is they think it's like, the text is a certain colour, and the computer knows what colour it is. And if you tell the computer to make it a different colour, then it will work. But it's not like that. In the computer, there's just the sequence of binary. And the encoding is how to read that binary as text. And if you tell the computer to read it as Latin 1, it will read it as Latin 1. If you take to convert from Latin 1 to UTF 8, it will assume the input is Latin 1, it will convert to UTF 8 on that basis. If your text actually wasn't Latin 1 in the first place, you're just going to end up with garbage. And some of the worst cases of that is when you already have UTF 8, and then you run utf8_encode on it, because the language doesn't know that you've already got UTF 8, so it tries to read its Latin 1, write it out ass UTF 8 and you get this weird Mojibake. I don't know pronouncing that right. Derick Rethans 4:27 I think it's pronounced Mojibake. Rowan Tommins 4:30 Mojibake. Derick Rethans 4:31 It's a Japanese term, because clearly these things, these issues happened with Japanese text quite a lot because they have a lot more different and difficult characters and encodings as well. With which things often go wrong though? Rowan Tommins 4:44 Using an unco on text that's already UTF 8 is obviously a big one. Usually obvious, but occasionally people just getting a muddle with that. The other thing that often happens is confusing with similar encoding. Latin 1 is often mistaken for a different coding windows 1252. To the extent that web pages labelled as Latin 1, web browsers will assume that they're actually in Windows 1252. These PHP functions don't make that assumption. If your text is actually in Windows 1252, and it's been mislabelled Latin 1, you might still think you're doing the right thing. So I've got Latin 1 text, but you haven't. And then the characters that are different, are going to get mangled again. And there's a few other related encodings that often look the same. There are a few other encodings that look the same at a glance that again, will go wrong on any character that's different between the different encodings. Derick Rethans 5:43 How could a function tell which encoding a certain text was in? Rowan Tommins 5:49 It's tricky. There are libraries out there that try to do it. Some encodings that are sequences of bits that aren't a valid character. So if any of those appear, it's definitely not in that encoding. Unfortunately, a lot of encodings, every pattern of bits has a meaning. It's just not necessarily mean. So you can't look at the string and just tell at a glance. The only way I've seen that does it effectively, is trying to guess based on what language text it might be in. If your text suddenly has a load of symbols in the middle of sentences, you're probably using the wrong encoding. If it's suddenly got a load of capital letters, in the middle of words, you're probably using the wrong encoding. So you can make guesses like that, that ultimately, there are only ever guesses. Derick Rethans 6:38 It's only always going to be a guess, right? You can't really tell for certain what it it is, which I've seen people assume that she can just tell. We have concluded that utf8_encode and decode don't actually do what they say they don't magically encode everything to UTF 8. What if things go wrong? How are errors handled? Rowan Tommins 6:58 If you're converting from Latin 1 into UTF 8, there Latin 1 covers all 256 possible eight bit binary strings. Those will correspond directly to a single mapping in Unicode and therefore in UTF 8. So there are no errors as such, when that happens, but it might not be what you want. One of the most notable ones that's different between these encodings is Latin 1 was standardized in 1985, the Euro didn't exist, then. The euro symbol doesn't have an encoding in Latin 1. If you've got a euro sign, you haven't got Latin 1 text, but you might think you've got Latin 1 text, and it will just encode it to what to a control character, which is where the windows 1252 code page puts the euro symbol, it replaces some control characters in Latin 1. One of the reasons why these character encodings are so easily confused is they've all nicely built to being compatible on top of each other. Latin 1 is deliberately an extension of ASCII. Windows 1252 is deliberately an extension of Latin 1, replacing some control characters. UTF 8 is also based on Latin 1, the first section of Unicode is actually the Latin 1, characters UTF 8 will encode and slightly differently so that it can carry on above 256. So in that direction, you can't actually get an error, you could just get a string, that doesn't make sense. Going back the other way. Unicode has, I think, potentially 11 million or something, and actually, at least a million assigned code points. Latin 1 only has 256. So you can't map all those back. And this function, the utf8_decode just replaces any that it can't match with the question mark. Similarly, if the input string isn't valid UTF 8. Again, if you've just misunderstood what strings doing and you haven't actually got a UTF 8 string in the first place, any sequence that doesn't look like valid UTF 8, again, just gets replaced with a question mark. Completely silently you get no warnings in your logs or anything. So you'll just get a few question marks. And problem is, a lot of people are writing text, mostly in English. So it's mostly ASCII. And all of these encodings agree on those first 127 things including all the letters and digits, most of your text will look fine. But if you're using utf8_encode, some of the accented letters will just look a bit funny. If using utf8_decode some of the characters will just turn into question marks. And you might just not notice that for a while until your applications been in production. And now all your strings a messed up. Derick Rethans 9:48 And I reckon that there's no way to fix that? Rowan Tommins 9:52 No. If you've saved saved the text, particularly with the decode direction. Run utf8_encode wrong, if you're careful and tracked carefully where what you've used, you can retrace your steps back to the original string. But if you've not understood what it was doing in the first place, you might have run it more than once, or put it into a system and then re interpreted it in a different way. And it can sometimes be quite hard to trace back what the original string was. You'll sometimes just have to edit it by hand. And guess that, oh, that's probably any acute because that was the word that was trying to be there. That was probably a curly quote mark that somebody was trying to type and those kinds of things. Derick Rethans 10:35 Talking about curly quote marks, I just found out that those are actually are code points in the windows 1252 encoding. Because I just had to edit a document that had these things in there. But the file was set as... this is UTF 8, which was a lie. It was a lie to begin with. We've established that these functions are pretty much destructive to text potentially, as well as not really doing what they say they do: encode every random stuff to UTF 8 or the other way around. I saw any RFC that you've done some research into their usage, didn't bring up anything interesting to talk about? Rowan Tommins 11:13 Yes, so there's a few things. So what I downloaded, it was last year, actually, I kind of had to pause on this RFC for real life happened a bit to me. So last year, I downloaded the 1000, I think top packages on Packagist, I'm most popular downloads, and went through all the uses, I could say of these functions. There were a handful that were using them correctly, they were checking that their input was Latin 1, or the output they needed was Latin 1. And using these, there were a few of those that were questionable, where they might have mistaken Latin 1 for Windows 1252. And actually, they were going to mess up any Euro signs or any of those few extra things that Microsoft added over the top of those control characters. There were a few using strftime, which can do translated Date Time strings. Those it turns out that functions been deprecated itself now, that will become a non issue, some people will have to find a different solution to that anyway. One of the odder ones that I've seen, which technically works, but only accidentally is people use it for what I describe as armour, where they've got a system that wants UTF 8 text, often encoding as JSON or something like that, where it needs to be UTF 8, they've got some unknown encoding that's not UTF 8, they encode to UTF 8, transmitted through the system. And then on the other end, run utf8_decode and they'll get back the string that they put in, because it never errors, there will always be a mapping of any string of bits that this function will give in UTF 8, it just won't be a meaningful string. You could put a JPEG image through utf8_encode, and you will get a string that is valid UTF 8, it's just not going to be very useful UTF 8. It's kind of a bit of a weird way of doing the thing you might do with base 64, or quoted printable encoding or something like that almost something for transport, it technically works. But this probably isn't the function you want to be doing it with. It's not a very useful encoding. And then there were a good number, which just tried throwing all the functions they could. And I kind of I don't want to call out the people with this. I think they were genuine mistakes, they were genuinely trying to solve a problem. But some of them just in hindsight looking at them or kind of hilarious. I think the one that makes me laugh most is the person who raised the StackOverflow question because their CSV file, some of the fields had grown to 32 kilobytes long, because they'd repeatedly run the same string through utf8_encode so many times, that each time it was encoding a single byte to multiple bytes, and then single bytes of that to multiple bytes. And only when it got to 32 kilobytes in one field, did they question whether they were doing the right thing? By which time their text was probably irrevocably lost in whatever other processing they've done on this file. Derick Rethans 14:22 Excellent encryption. Rowan Tommins 14:24 Yes. Derick Rethans 14:25 The RFC talks about a few other approaches to instead of deprecating utf8_encode and decode. What are the things that you look at? And why did you reject them in the end? Rowan Tommins 14:36 One of the most obvious things you could do? The biggest problem is the name of the functions. Could you just rename them? The problem with that is you'd have to spend a long time doing it because you want to introduce the new name in one version of PHP, then deprecate in a later later version of PHP, and then finally remove. And then at the end of it, you'd have these very specific functions. We could call them latin1_to_utf8 and utf8_to_latin1. If we were designing those functions, if you put an RFC to, to add those functions to the language, it wouldn't pass. There's they're very why, why would we have these specific functions, and we'd still have this problem of Windows 1252, and other related encodings, like Latin 9, which is the official successor to Latin 1, and also has a few differences amongst it. They still wouldn't solve a lot of people's problems. A lot of the people that actually want Latin 1 are going to need the euro symbol. So they don't probably don't actually use Latin 1 any more. Because I guess Canadian French, and Mexican Spanish, need to probably that in one's probably still a decent encoding for but the Western European languages it was originally designed for, probably everyone's going to want a euro symbol. Changing the name just leaves us with these awkward functions still. You could instead or as well add options to them, you could add a parameter to them that indicated what the source or destination encoding was. That defaulted initially to Latin 1, and then you were forced to add it later. And then at least you'd be spelling out what encoding it was. The problem with that is, the more encodings, you add, there's actually quite a lot of code that would need to then be added to the function, and it will be duplicating functions we've already got. Derick Rethans 16:31 Such as? Rowan Tommins 16:32 So we've actually in PHP got three functions that can convert between any pair of encodings, including the ones that these functions do. They're all unfortunately in extensions, which are technically optional. Which is something that the way PHP is modular, means that a lot of things that you'd think were kind of just part of the language are technically optional, for one reason or another. But we've got mb_convert_encoding from the mbstring extension. We've got iconv, which uses an external library of the same name. Derick Rethans 17:09 Are you sure it just doesn't use a GCC function or the glib functionality in PHP? Rowan Tommins 17:14 The iconv function uses whatever iconv is available on the system, and seems to vary quite a lot between systems. Oddly, one online code running tool I tried, doesn't actually recognize 8859-1 as an encoding in the iconv function. I don't know why. Just something about the libraries, that version of PHP was built, built against. The most powerful one we've got but also the least documented is the intl extension, which is built on the ICU library, made by the Unicode Consortium. That has a lot of options around how you handle errors and missing characters and supports a lot of different character sets. Some was completely undocumented, I've tried to write a manual page for it, which will hopefully get merged and put live soon. So at least, there will be some documentation there's a, there's an object that you can use with lots of options. But there's a static method, which just takes a from and to encoding. So that's one option. The mb_convert_encoding is probably the most widely available. And maybe we should be looking at making that MB string, less optional. I don't know what that looks like, because of the way, unless you force people to compile it in a lot of the Linux distros. Distribute every module they can separately, they make optional. Derick Rethans 18:39 But they also make it easy for you to install them then. Rowan Tommins 18:42 They make it very easy to install. So I don't know how many people actually run PHP with just its minimal set of modules. And how many just install a default set. The default set is a bit vaguely defined, unfortunately. So that's one of the my main hesitation with this removal, that although we've got these alternatives, we've got these three alternatives. They've all got slight problems, and they're all optional. Derick Rethans 19:08 But considering that utf8_encode and decode don't actually really do well, they say they do, everybody that had to do character set conversions correctly, would have already been using these functions. Rowan Tommins 19:23 Indeed, yes. So I've seen people misuse all of these. Again, people do just generally misunderstand character encoding. MB string does have a function to guess character encoding. As you're saying earlier, people just kind of assume that that will work. A lot of the time, it can't really tell the difference between different character encodings. It can tell you whether a string is valid UTF 8, it can't tell you whether it's Latin 1 or Windows 1252, or any of these others that are single byte encodings. Derick Rethans 19:52 I think ICU actually as functionality for guessing an encoding as well, but it will give you back an array of possibilities and perhaps even with a confidence. But it's a long, long time since I've looked at that. So I'll have to revisit it. Rowan Tommins 20:08 Yeah, that would at least be a more kind of transparent way of doing it that. And that's I guess what I'm trying to do with removing these, is that if you're forced to specify a pair of encodings, as you do for these other functions, at least hopefully, somewhere in your mind, you're going to be thinking about what encodings you might have, rather than just reaching for the first function you find. Derick Rethans 20:31 Yep, exactly. What is the feedback being so far? Rowan Tommins 20:34 Generally positive. There hasn't been a lot of a lot of comments. But those that have been have generally been supportive. I liked somebody said: All the times they've seen it used, including when they've used it themselves, it's been a misunderstanding. I'd like to hear more feedback of anyone. Anyone does have quite. The main feedback I have had has been around making sure there are alternatives to recommend to people. So anyone who is using these correctly, or nearly correctly, what we tell them to use instead, how do we make sure that's clear, and clearly documented, and we're recommending the right thing. I'm going to think a bit more about that, whether we should be being more definite in recommending one of these options. Particularly I think iconv does seem to have these odd platform issues. They used to be a fourth option. While I was looking at this, they used to be another library called recode. That one seems to have been discontinued. Some references in the PHP manual still refer to recode as an optional option for doing this. But that's been long since shelved. So MB string has the benefit that it doesn't rely on any third party libraries. It's technically a third party library, but it's shipped with PHP, and I don't think anything other than PHP uses it any more. And there have been a lot of there's been a lot of work on that library recently, particularly somebody called Alex Douward, apologies, if you're listening to this, and I pronounce your surname wrong, has done a lot of great work. I've seen recently improving that extension, making sure the detection algorithm is doing as sensible results as it can and improving the test test coverage of that extension and things like that. So that gives me a bit more confidence in that extension, which initially was one of those PHP reinventing the wheel, it felt a bit like, so probably update the RFC to more explicitly say, that's the number one recommended path. Derick Rethans 22:27 And of course, you can link that from the utf8_encode and utf8_decode manual pages as well. Please don't use this instead, do this, right? Rowan Tommins 22:36 Yeah. And that's again, where it can be a nice clear drop in replacement, so that people are using it right. Here's exactly what to what to use instead. But hopefully, while they're replacing it, they may be at least think about whether it was doing what they what they were hoping for in the first place. Derick Rethans 22:55 When do you think you'll be bringing this up for a vote? Rowan Tommins 22:59 Unless I get more feedback, further changes? I'll probably tweak that wording in terms of the recommendation that we'll put to users. Otherwise, probably in the next couple of weeks, unless I hear any more, to see if any last minute criticism comes out the woodwork when people are asked to vote on it. Derick Rethans 23:18 Yeah that always happens, right? No comments when there isn't a request for comments. But loads of comments if people are voting on it, and it makes it to Twitter. Okay, Rowan, thank you for taking the time today then to talk about this RFC. Rowan Tommins 23:32 Thank you very much for having me. Derick Rethans 23:39 Thank you for listening to this installment of PHP internals news, a podcast dedicated to demystifying the development of the PHP language. I maintain a Patreon account for supporters of this podcast, as well as the Xdebug debugging tool. You can sign up for Patreon at https://drck.me/patreon. If you have comments or suggestions, feel free to email them to derick@phpinternals.news. Thank you for listening, and I'll see you next time. Show Notes RFC: Deprecate and Remove utf8_encode and utf8_decode Credits Music: Chipper Doodle v2 — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss the cultural significance of emoji, in light of the release of new forms. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show:  The Unicode Consortium has released dozens of new emoji, including a pregnant man, a melting face, and multiple new family configurations. Natalia referred to this Atlantic essay and to this BBC piece, and Niki to this essay on Science Friday.   In our regular closing feature, What's Making History: Natalia discussed the range of causes currently motivating student protests, including this walkout in Poway, California. Neil shared Dr. Amanda Joy Calhoun's Stat News article, “How Black Hair Racism Affects Mental Health.” Niki recommended Jamelle Bouie's New York Times piece, “We Still Can't See American Slavery For What It Was.”

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2021年度最常用的表情符号，第一又是它！| These Were the Most Popular Emojis of 2021Coming in with over 5% of all emojis used for the year was Tears of Joy. The Unicode Consortium notes the only other emoji to get close to that was heart.2021年，笑哭表情占所有表情符号使用量的5%以上。统一码联盟指出，唯一一个使用率与之接近的表情符号是爱心。"Face with Tears of Joy," the official name for the laughing crying emoji, is currently the most-used emoji.“笑哭”表情包的官方名称是“喜极而泣”，是当下最流行的表情包。 Although at the beginning of this year, people were not optimistic about the Tears of Joy emoji.尽管在年初的时候，人们对于“笑哭”的表情包并不看好。"If you indicate digital laughter for years and years in the same way, it starts to feel insincere. ... The hyperbole gets worn out through continued use," Internet linguists Gretchen McCulloch said. That's why Gen Zers may be looking to fresh and novel ways to signal they're laughing through different ways.互联网语言学家麦卡洛克（Gretchen McCulloch）曾说：“如果你多年来用同样的方式表达笑意，它会逐渐显得不真诚。……这种夸张的符号已经被用烂了。”这就是为什么Z世代试图找寻新鲜的替代品，通过不一样的方式表达笑。"I use everything but the laughing emoji," 21-year-old Walid Mohammed told CNN Business. "I stopped using it a while back because I saw older people using it, like my mom, my older siblings and just older people in general."21岁的瓦利德·穆罕默德（Walid Mohammed）对记者说：“我什么表情都用，除了‘笑哭'。很久以前我就不再用这个表情了，因为我看到都是年纪更大的人在用，比如我妈妈、哥哥姐姐以及其他上了年纪的人。”Seventeen-year-old Xavier Martin called the Tears of Joy emoji "bland" and said "not too many people" his age use it. Stacy Thiru, 21, prefers the real crying emoji because it shows a more extreme emotion and feels more dramatic.17岁的泽维尔·马丁（Xavier Martin）则表示，“笑哭”表情符号“很乏味”，并称同龄人使用它的并不多。21岁的斯泰茜·蒂鲁（Stacy Thiru）更喜欢真正的“哭泣”表情符号，因为它表现出一种更极端的情感，更富有戏剧性。Despite of all the dissenters, Tears of Joy didn't become a victim of its own success, at least according to the Most Popular Emojis of 2021.尽管有那么些不同的意见，至少从2021年度最常用的表情符号来看，“笑哭”的口碑并未跌落。Another interesting finding was the top 100 emoji made up about 82% of emoji used.另一个有趣的发现是，排名前100的表情符号约占表情符号使用量的82%。While the smiley/emotion category was the most popular overall, the new report breaks down nine different emoji categories by the most and least used.虽然笑脸/情绪表情类别是最受欢迎的类别，但统一码联盟的最新报告将九种不同的表情分类按使用最多和最少进行了排名。When it came to other categories, Unicode says the most used emoji were ones that represent multiple concepts.统一码联盟表示，在其他表情类别中，最常用的表情是代表多种概念的。Rocket Ship found in the Transport-air is symbolic of progress being made and anticipation of big changes.交通运输-航空类别下的火箭船表情，象征着正在取得进步和期待巨大变化。 Flexed Biceps is the top Body-parts emoji (this subcategory excludes hands) and is commonly used to indicate strength, success, overcoming a struggle, exercise, showing off, boasting, or rolling up your sleeve to receive a vaccine.弯曲的二头肌是最受欢迎的身体部位表情符号（这个子类别不包含手的表情符号），通常用于表示力量、成功、战胜困难、锻炼、炫耀、自夸或卷起袖子接种疫苗。 Bouquet of Plant-Flower for all occasions: congratulations, celebrations, and relationships of many varieties be they platonic or romantic.植物-鲜花类别下的花束表情可以用于所有的场景：祝贺、庆祝以及各种各样的人际关系，无论是柏拉图式的还是浪漫的。 Butterfly is the most common Animal emoji (found in the Animal-Bug subcategory) representative of change, beauty, nature, and transformation.动物-昆虫子类别中的蝴蝶是使用最多的动物表情符号，它代表着改变、美丽、自然和蜕变。 Person Doing Cartwheel may not be the most popular sport in the world, but it is the most popular Person-Sport suggestive of happiness and joy.做侧手翻的人或许并不是全球最受欢迎的运动类表情符号，但却是最受欢迎的运动人物，因为它代表着开心和愉悦。 The least popular category?最不常用的表情类别是什么呢？Flags. The least popular subcategory? Country-flags. They represent the largest collection (258 emoji), but are used the least. Animal-mammal are the next largest subcategory (53 emoji).旗帜。使用最少的表情子类别是国家（地区）旗帜。它们是数量最庞大的子类别（共258个表情符号），但是却用的最少。动物-哺乳动物排名第二（共53个表情符号）。It is noteworthy that the coronavirus pandemic has contributed little to the popularization of emoji microbes, which barely entered the top 500. Note that at the moment there are only 3,663 emoticons.值得注意的是，新冠疫情对微生物表情符号的使用普及影响甚微，微生物表情仅仅进入前500名，而目前只有3663个表情符号。 As for why young people like to use facial expressions so frequently, some people said: “The English language cannot fully capture the depth and complexity of my thoughts, so I'm incorporating emoji into my speech to better express myself. Winky face.”为什么年轻人喜欢那么频繁地使用表情呢？有人说：“光用语言不能完全阐释我复杂深邃的思想，所以我要在说话时加入表情符号来更好地表达自己。[眨眼]”重点词汇：consortium英 [kənˈsɔːtiəm]；美[kənˈsɔːrtiəm] n. 联盟；（合作进行某项工程的）财团，银团，联营企业hyperbole英 [haɪˈpɜːbəli]；美[haɪˈpɜːrbəli] n. 夸张法；夸张bland英 [blænd]；美[blænd] adj. 平淡的；乏味的；清淡的；沉稳的；无动于衷的anticipation英 [ænˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃn]；美[ænˌtɪsɪˈpeɪʃn] n. 期待；预期

Emoji users: Your vocabulary is about to grow. The Unicode Consortium, a group that approves emoji, has added 112 new ones, including a melting smiley face, a coral reef, an X-ray and more skin tone and gender options, like a pregnant man and pregnant person. The new icons will start appearing on your phones later this year. Marketplace’s Marielle Segarra speaks with Jeremy Burge, chief emoji officer at Emojipedia, an encyclopedia for emoji. Burge talked about how emoji get approved and what happens when companies lobby for an emoji of one of their products.

Emoji users: Your vocabulary is about to grow. The Unicode Consortium, a group that approves emoji, has added 112 new ones, including a melting smiley face, a coral reef, an X-ray and more skin tone and gender options, like a pregnant man and pregnant person. The new icons will start appearing on your phones later this year. Marketplace’s Marielle Segarra speaks with Jeremy Burge, chief emoji officer at Emojipedia, an encyclopedia for emoji. Burge talked about how emoji get approved and what happens when companies lobby for an emoji of one of their products.

Emoji users: Your vocabulary is about to grow. The Unicode Consortium, a group that approves emoji, has added 112 new ones, including a melting smiley face, a coral reef, an X-ray and more skin tone and gender options, like a pregnant man and pregnant person. The new icons will start appearing on your phones later this year. Marketplace’s Marielle Segarra speaks with Jeremy Burge, chief emoji officer at Emojipedia, an encyclopedia for emoji. Burge talked about how emoji get approved and what happens when companies lobby for an emoji of one of their products.

Guests: Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone; Brett Goldstein & Hannah Waddingham; Gretchen McCulloch & Lauren GawneTed Lasso's Brett Goldstein & Hannah Waddingham score points in a game about scores. Melissa McCarthy & Ben Falcone take a 180 from making R-rated comedy to producing a Bob Ross documentary. Lingthusiasm hosts Gretchen McCulloch & Lauren Gawne explain who's in charge of making new emoji. Speaking of which... hey, Unicode Consortium! Where's our fact bag emoji?

We travel to California to find out who controls the emoji available on every single smartphone in the world - the mysterious Unicode Consortium. This secretive organisation decides what is included and what is left off the official emoji keyboard. But are they up to the job? Not everyone is convinced. Presenter: Sarah Treanor and Vivienne Nunis Producer: Sarah Treanor

¿Cuantas veces has querido enviar un emoji para transmitir un mensaje preciso y te has encontrado con que no existe? No temas, en el episodio de hoy te explicamos cómo puedes enviar una solicitud al Unicode Consortium y pedir que lo añadan. Links de interés Web oficial de Unicode: https://home.unicode.org/ Ranking de emojis mas usados: https://home.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-frequency/ Listado de todos los emojis de la versión actual: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html Guía para proponer un nuevo emoji: https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html Lista de propuestas anteriores: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-proposals.html Mi propuesta para el Emoji BINOCULARES: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VzzTroappYq4uuYG94hHTLwKq73cb9Zr/view Mi propuesta para el Emoji MARTILLO DE JUEZ: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Aub8PGyD0nip2qEh-EjDqw6BrRTAsWxq/view Mi propuesta para el Emoji LADRÓN: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1477zboXFpMfpw2NSCq4C6aY04ePFOKy4/view Cuéntanos qué tal lo hemos hecho Rellena esta simple encuesta que nos dará una idea de cosas que deberíamos mejorar y temas que te gustaría que tratemos: https://forms.gle/mbPnUJ6M9dss7SkP9 Contacto No dejes de seguirnos en Twitter: @bucleinf Ayúdanos a seguir: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/bucleinfinito Support Bucle Infinito by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/bucleinfinito

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The workaround the Unicode Consortium used to make sure we still get new emojis in 2021, pandemic or not. Facial hair is biologically useless. So why do some humans have it? And the SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule returning this evening will be carrying on it a case of twelve unopened bottles of red wine. But why?Sponsors:Skillshare, Get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke Fitbod, Get 25% off a membership when you sign up now through 2/28 at Fitbod.me/kottkeLinks:The Emoji That Nearly Weren't (Jennifer Daniel, Substack) via Today In TabsEmoji ZWJ Sequences: Three Letters, Many Possibilities (Emojipedia)Facial Hair Is Biologically Useless. So Why Do Humans Have It? (Wired)Wild Study Suggests Human Beards Evolved to Absorb Punches to The Head (Science Alert)Our Skulls Didn't Evolve to be Punched (National Geographic)French wine, vines headed home after year in space (AP)Wed. 12/9 - Space Booze: It's... For Science (Kottke Ride Home)Kottke.OrgJackson Bird on Twitter

In a bit of good news, there will be new emojis in 2021 after all.The Unicode Consortium, a non-profit that oversees emoji standards and is responsible for new releases, announced the release of more than 200 emojis that will hit cell phones throughout next year in a limited "Emoji 13.1" release -- which means even more ways to convey the pain of this year.Unicode called it a "minor release" to add new emojis before 2022. The consortium announced in April there would be no new emojis until 2022 because of the pandemic.Among the major additions are (fittingly for this year) a heart with a bandage wrapped around it and a heart on fire -- which, depending on the interpretation, could express either heartburn or heartbreak.Another major addition is an attempt at creating a gender-neutral person with a beard, rather than just allowing a seemingly male option, as is currently the case. The attempted gender-inclusive design offers three variants of the beard: a "person" with a beard, a "woman" with a beard and a "man" with a beard -- with the "person" option meant to be the gender-neutral one.But the bulk of the update, comprising 200 out of the 217 new emojis, is dedicated to skin tones for the "couple with heart" emoji and the "kiss" emoji. Current options offer only the default "yellow" skin tone for both, but the update will allow other skin tones to be specified. This would also allow for the depiction of interracial relationships.Other fun additions include a face/head in the clouds (either a deity or the visual representation of daydreaming) and a face blowing out a breath or cloud of smoke.The updates could hit your phone anywhere from January to October 2021, with the more complete "Emoji 14.0" package set to drop in 2022.text by Leah Asmelash, CNN

Show #839   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 14th July 2020. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   BMW STARTS EV OFFENSIVE WITH IX3 "The BMW iX3 is the brand’s first electric vehicle targeted at a sweet spot of the premium market: the midsize SUV segment, where it will compete with models such as the Jaguar I-Pace and forthcoming Tesla Model Y." says Christian at Automotive News Europe: "The iX3, which debuts in China later this year and in Europe in early 2021, previews BMW's upcoming EV offensive that will include two more models next year, the i4 sedan and the larger iNEXT crossover. The iX3 is the first BMW to use the automaker's flexible architecture that can underpin combustion engine, plug-in hybrid and battery-powered cars. This allows BMW to produce all three variants on the same assembly line."   188 prismatic NMC 811 cells Battery 518kg 180kph top speed Current-excited synchronous electric motors (VW use permanent magnet synchronous motor which is lighter and more efficient but uses more rare earth materials, Tesla Model 3/Y and the front motor in the S & X use a form of those called permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance motors ...e-tron and EQC plus S&X rear motors are induction motors which have very high torque at low speeds)   "When the electric SUV will later go on sale in Europe, BMW is calling for prices starting just under 70,000 euros." says electrive: "For the high base price the iX3 is comparatively well equipped. The standard equipment already includes a metallic paint finish, 3-zone automatic climate control with auxiliary heating and air conditioning functions, automatic tailgate operation, the “Driving Assist Professional” and LED headlights. Aerodynamically optimised 19-inch rims are fitted ex works, while the “Impressive” equipment line features 20-inch rims. This equipment also includes acoustic glazing, the head-up display and sports seats."   Jalopnik were less complimentary: "The Tesla Model S started production in 2012, and showed that the world was ready for a full-on, from-the-ground-up electric car. One that wasn’t just the shell of a gas-powered car with some batteries jammed in. And yet, some 8 years later, BMW is still facing up against Tesla with a shell of a gas-powered car with some batteries jammed in."   https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/bmw-starts-ev-offensive-ix3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter   https://www.electrive.com/2020/07/14/bmw-ix3-to-cost-e70000/   https://jalopnik.com/bmw-s-most-serious-new-electric-car-is-kind-of-lame-1844375848   PATENTS REVEAL DACIA SPRING: THE MOST AFFORDABLE EV IN EUROPE "When Carlos Ghosn said he wanted a small and affordable electric car to sell all over the world, Renault gave him the K-ZE City. The urban vehicle has a 26.8 kWh pack, good for 271 km of range under the NEDC cycle. Europe will finally have its version of that affordable EV when the Dacia Spring is put for sale in early 2021, and these patents show it will not change much compared to the concept." says InsideEVs: "Primarily based on the Renault Kwid developed for India and Brazil. In China, its most expensive version, sold by 71,800 RMB ($10,246, at the current exchange rate), is slightly taller, at 1,52 m (59,8 in), probably due to roof rails. It also has a mid-spec option for 66,800 RMB ($9,533). The entry-level K-ZE costs 61,800 RMB – or $8,819 "   https://insideevs.com/news/433930/patents-reveal-affordable-dacia-spring/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=RSS-all-articles   ELECTRIFY AMERICA INTRODUCES NEW PROPOSAL FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGER EMOJI Ahead of World Emoji Day on July 17, Electrify America announced a new proposal to introduce the first-ever “EV Charger” emoji for smartphone keyboards. The proposal was officially submitted for consideration to the Unicode Consortium, the governing body for emoji creation. After offering an “Electric Vehicle with Charger” emoji on World Emoji Day 2019 and receiving a decline from the Unicode Consortium, the EV charging company felt strongly enough about accurately representing EV chargers and the future of transportation through emoji to create and submit a new design. The new “EV Charger” emoji design takes feedback from the committee into account, streamlining the emoji to focus on solely the charger.   https://media.electrifyamerica.com/en-us/releases/104   STARD WRITES HISTORY WITH FIRST VICTORY FOR AN ELECTRIC RALLYCROSS CAR STARD, based near Vienna, Austria, is a company familiar with making history in the alternative technology motorsport arena. But, on Sunday July 12, together with rally star Manfred Stohl, STARD made its biggest entry into the history books yet by claiming the first ever victory for a rallycross car using a fully-electric powertrain. The REVelution electric kit for Projekt E produces 450kW (613bhp) combined power, 1000Nm of instantaneous torque with a top speed of 240km/h from three high performance road car electric motors, using a four-wheel drive system and two-speed transmission. Last weekend at the Kakucs circuit in Hungary, in a round of the Hungarian Rallycross Championship, STARD ran a Ford Fiesta ElectRX, the debut appearance for a fully-electric rallycross car in its intended environment.   BRITISH BATTERY STORAGE SECTOR TAKES A ‘BIG STEP’ AS MINISTERS REMOVE SIZE LIMIT BARRIERS "Barriers have been removed allowing for battery storage projects five times the size as the current limit in Britain, in a move hailed as a “significant, positive and well-timed” step. Secondary legislation was passed by ministers today (14 July) that will allow for projects above 50MW in England and 350MW in Wales." sayx energy-storage.news: "Head of markets at National Grid ESO, Kayte O’Neill said that how the company operates the grid is changing as record levels of renewable energy sources generate more and more of Great Britain’s power. Currently there is 4GW of storage project in planning in Great Britain according to BEIS, which collectively could power 6 million homes. Already, there is 1GW of battery storage in operation.   The gov said: “Removing barriers in the planning system will help us build bigger and more powerful batteries, creating more green-collar jobs and a smarter electricity network.”   https://www.energy-storage.news/news/british-battery-sector-takes-a-big-step-as-ministers-remove-barriers   HYUNDAI KONA ELECTRIC ACHIEVES RECORD SALES IN JUNE "In March Hyundai started the deliveries of the Kona Electric made at its European manufacturing plant, in Czech Republic. Back then European production was at 150 Kona Electrics per day and Hyundai planed to produce 30.000 electric cars this year in Europe." says PushEVs: "Hyundai also expected that by delivering 80.000 electric cars to European customers this year, it would become the biggest provider of zero-emission vehicles in Europe in 2020.  in June Hyundai managed to sell 5.627 units of the Kona Electric outside its domestic market, which represents a sales record for this automaker.It seems that the  production of ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars was much more affected by the lockdowns than the production of electric cars. One possible explanation is that since electric cars are simpler to build and require far fewer parts, supplier list is also much shorter and resuming production is always less problematic."   https://pushevs.com/2020/07/14/hyundai-kona-electric-achieves-record-sales-in-june/   SUBSIDIES SLASH EV LEASE COSTS IN GERMANY, FRANCE "Car buyers in Germany and France can now get their hands on a brand-new electric vehicle for less than the typical cost of a mobile-phone contract. Thanks to newly generous subsidies, some are even free." writes Automotive News Europe: "Shoppers have swarmed virtual showrooms in Germany and France -- the region's two largest passenger-car markets -- after their national governments boosted electric-vehicle incentives to stimulate demand. Their purchase subsidies are now among the most favorable in the world, according to BloombergNEF. The state support is allowing Autohaus Koenig, a dealership chain with more than 50 locations across Germany, to advertise a lease for the battery-powered Renault Zoe that is entirely covered by subsidies. In France, where the government raised subsidies to 7,000 euros per car this year, customers can lease the Zoe from 79 euros a month."   https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/subsidies-slash-ev-lease-costs-germany-france   TESLA’S MODEL Y STRATEGY SHOWS THAT LONG RANGE EVS ARE THE NEW STANDARD   "Over the weekend, Tesla, through its CEO, Elon Musk, revealed that the Model Y Standard Range RWD will no longer be produced. In its place will be a Long Range RWD variant that Musk states will have a range that’s significantly higher than 300 miles per charge. With this update, the message was clear: Tesla is intent on making Long Range versions of its vehicles as the new standard. " says TEslarati: "when Elon Musk confirmed that the Standard Range RWD version of the Model Y has been cancelled, he stated that the variant’s range would be “unacceptably low.”. The cancellation of the Model Y Standard Range RWD also seems to be a way for the company to keep the Model 3 Standard Range Plus as the de facto entry level Tesla for some time. After all, the Model Y Standard Range RWD was initially listed with a price of $39,000, which is very close to the Model 3 Standard Range Plus’ $37,990. By removing the Model Y Standard Range, Tesla could ensure that the Model 3 Standard Range Plus will remain a bang for your buck sedan."   https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-y-long-range-rwd-price-elon-musk/   [mention for Premium Partners]   You can listen to all 838 previous episodes of this this for free, where you get your podcasts from, plus the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – remember to subscribe, which means you don’t have to think about downloading the show each day, plus you get it first and free and automatically.   It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast.   And  if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing.   Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, I’ll catch you tomorrow and remember…there’s no such thing as a self-charging hybrid.     PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE (PREMIUM PARTNER) BRAD CROSBY (PREMIUM PARTNER) AVID TECHNOLOGY (PREMIUM PARTNER) BRIGHTSMITHGROUP.COM – FOR CLEANTECH TALENT (PREMIUM PARTNER) PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI (PREMIUM PARTNER) AUDI CINCINNATI EAST (PREMIUM PARTNER) VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST (PREMIUM PARTNER) NEW! 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Emoji are the first kind of symbolic element designed to read only online that’s also difficult, sometimes impossible, to reproduce accurately in print—or in a static electronic document, like a PDF. In this episode, I talk with Jeremy Burge, the chief emoji officer of Emojipedia, a site that exhaustively documents the past and present of those popular pictographs. He also helps chart the future as a member of the Unicode Consortium group that considers adding new emoji to the official Unicode set.Sponsored by the Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule and the associated book, Six Centuries of Type & Printing. Find out more.

Jack Dorsey's billion-dollar COVID fund, Bringing the classroom to YouTube, Microsoft doubles down on virtual eventsKurt Wagner from Bloomberg discusses how Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has committed 1 billion dollars to COVID-19 related efforts and why now is a particularly good time for him to do so.Sophie Lucido Johnson is a teacher who has chosen to utilize YouTube over Zoom for her remote classroom work. She shared her reasons why in a post on OneZero and talks about those reasons with Mikah and Jason.Microsoft insiders told Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet and Windows Weekly that the company will postpone the release of its dual-screen Windows X devices to 2021 due to COVID-19 supply chain issues.The Unicode Consortium announced that new EMOJI will be pushed back to at least 2021 due to the pandemic. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Kurt Wagner and Sophie Lucido Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether LastPass.com/twit

Jack Dorsey's billion-dollar COVID fund, Bringing the classroom to YouTube, Microsoft doubles down on virtual eventsKurt Wagner from Bloomberg discusses how Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has committed 1 billion dollars to COVID-19 related efforts and why now is a particularly good time for him to do so.Sophie Lucido Johnson is a teacher who has chosen to utilize YouTube over Zoom for her remote classroom work. She shared her reasons why in a post on OneZero and talks about those reasons with Mikah and Jason.Microsoft insiders told Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet and Windows Weekly that the company will postpone the release of its dual-screen Windows X devices to 2021 due to COVID-19 supply chain issues.The Unicode Consortium announced that new EMOJI will be pushed back to at least 2021 due to the pandemic. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Kurt Wagner and Sophie Lucido Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether LastPass.com/twit

Jack Dorsey's billion-dollar COVID fund, Bringing the classroom to YouTube, Microsoft doubles down on virtual eventsKurt Wagner from Bloomberg discusses how Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has committed 1 billion dollars to COVID-19 related efforts and why now is a particularly good time for him to do so.Sophie Lucido Johnson is a teacher who has chosen to utilize YouTube over Zoom for her remote classroom work. She shared her reasons why in a post on OneZero and talks about those reasons with Mikah and Jason.Microsoft insiders told Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet and Windows Weekly that the company will postpone the release of its dual-screen Windows X devices to 2021 due to COVID-19 supply chain issues.The Unicode Consortium announced that new EMOJI will be pushed back to at least 2021 due to the pandemic. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Kurt Wagner and Sophie Lucido Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether LastPass.com/twit

Jack Dorsey's billion-dollar COVID fund, Bringing the classroom to YouTube, Microsoft doubles down on virtual eventsKurt Wagner from Bloomberg discusses how Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has committed 1 billion dollars to COVID-19 related efforts and why now is a particularly good time for him to do so.Sophie Lucido Johnson is a teacher who has chosen to utilize YouTube over Zoom for her remote classroom work. She shared her reasons why in a post on OneZero and talks about those reasons with Mikah and Jason.Microsoft insiders told Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet and Windows Weekly that the company will postpone the release of its dual-screen Windows X devices to 2021 due to COVID-19 supply chain issues.The Unicode Consortium announced that new EMOJI will be pushed back to at least 2021 due to the pandemic. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Kurt Wagner and Sophie Lucido Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether LastPass.com/twit

Jack Dorsey's billion-dollar COVID fund, Bringing the classroom to YouTube, Microsoft doubles down on virtual eventsKurt Wagner from Bloomberg discusses how Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has committed 1 billion dollars to COVID-19 related efforts and why now is a particularly good time for him to do so.Sophie Lucido Johnson is a teacher who has chosen to utilize YouTube over Zoom for her remote classroom work. She shared her reasons why in a post on OneZero and talks about those reasons with Mikah and Jason.Microsoft insiders told Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet and Windows Weekly that the company will postpone the release of its dual-screen Windows X devices to 2021 due to COVID-19 supply chain issues.The Unicode Consortium announced that new EMOJI will be pushed back to at least 2021 due to the pandemic. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Kurt Wagner and Sophie Lucido Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether LastPass.com/twit

Jack Dorsey's billion-dollar COVID fund, Bringing the classroom to YouTube, Microsoft doubles down on virtual eventsKurt Wagner from Bloomberg discusses how Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has committed 1 billion dollars to COVID-19 related efforts and why now is a particularly good time for him to do so.Sophie Lucido Johnson is a teacher who has chosen to utilize YouTube over Zoom for her remote classroom work. She shared her reasons why in a post on OneZero and talks about those reasons with Mikah and Jason.Microsoft insiders told Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet and Windows Weekly that the company will postpone the release of its dual-screen Windows X devices to 2021 due to COVID-19 supply chain issues.The Unicode Consortium announced that new EMOJI will be pushed back to at least 2021 due to the pandemic. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Kurt Wagner and Sophie Lucido Johnson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter.com/worktogether LastPass.com/twit

Got primary season hangover already? Don't worry, we've got you, fam. What happened while we were on break? Caucuses, acquittals, and viruses, oh my! While we've been off, Andrew has had a brief love affair with LA, Laura has delayed filing her taxes (fight the power), and Pam learned some of the legalities behind scattering human remains in public. The Oscars can't seem to stop its bleeding viewership problem, but this year represented a few positive shifts: the first time a foreign language film won Best Picture (Parasite), first time a female conductor led the Best Score ensemble, and the films that were expected to "win big" didn't take home as many awards as anticipated. Iowa: WTF happened, and why do we still place so much emphasis on it? With Sanders and Buttigieg getting so much press, are we looking at our two frontrunners? The Unicode Consortium has finished 62 new emoji (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/01/29/new-emojis-coming-in-2020/) that will roll out later this year. We're excited about the trans flag, crying while smiling, and disguised faces, and less so about the flatbread and the rock (wtf?). Speaking of WTF, check out some of the celebrity offerings on Cameo (https://www.cameo.com/) . We browse (and gasp) at the prices people are willing to pay for a 60 second video from B-list celebs. A confessional from a listener in an interracial relationship prompts a discussion about what it's like to be in any kind of non-homogenous relationship in the current political climate. This week's recommendations should thaw your heart and soul: Funko Hollywood (Andrew), Ivy's Tea (https://ivystea.com/) (Laura), and 'The Good Place' (Pam). This week's episode is sponsored by ZipRecruiter (https://www.ziprecruiter.com/millennial to try ZipRecruiter for FREE), BioClarity (https://www.bioclarity.com (https://www.bioclarity.com/) and enter promo code MIL for 15% off everything on their website), Stamps.com (https://www.stamps.com (https://www.stamps.com/) and enter promo code MILL for a 4 week trial PLUS free postage AND a digital scale without any longterm commitment), and HoneyBook (https://www.tryhoneybook.com/MILL for 50% off your first year). Support #Millennial by supporting our sponsors! And in this week's installment of After Dark, this week available to all Patrons: We attempt to Surprise Bitch! listener Kody, and get Surprise Bitched! in return. In the wake of Kobe Bryant's death and new developments in the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard saga, we revisit the topic of cancel culture. When is it appropriate to cancel someone? When does cancel culture do more harm than good? Andrew gets a surprise invitation from a prominent LA comedian.

What is the emoji? The Unicode Consortium, which decides on new emojis, wants to know if you have an idea for a new one. Plus, Snapchat is alive and well - put some bunny ears on that profit statement! And how will Netflix handle its new big competitors?

听众朋友早上好，今天是 7 月 23 日又一个星期二，欢迎收听全球字体新闻联播。 本期节目，照例将为大家介绍近期海内外值得回顾的新闻新事、新书新字。特别地，我们集中关注了一些与基里尔字母字体设计相关的竞赛、作品及书籍，希望为大家提供更广泛的视野。 下面是本期内容的详细报道。 参考链接 Ribaasu Typeface，廖恬敏设计的多文种「逆反差」（reverse-contrast）字体；字体名称「Ribaasu」为日语「リバース」（reverse）的罗马字转写 峰月楷书，由ヨコカク设计，创作蓝本源自蒼溟社书法老师矢島峰月先生 Unicode Consortium 于 7 月 17 日上线新版网站以庆祝「世界 Emoji 日」 Apple 展示了今秋即将面世的新 emoji 字符 Modern Cyrillic 2019 (K19) 字体设计竞赛公布获奖作品；Modern Cyrillic 是 Paratype 主办的基里尔字母字体设计竞赛 GRANSHAN 2019 字体设计竞赛征稿时间延迟至 7 月 24 日；GRANSHAN 是亚美尼亚文化部主办的非拉丁字母字体设计竞赛 ATypI 2019 Tokyo 门票在官方网站商店开售 QuarkXPress 2019 发布；Quark 推出了多种软件购买方式，包括 QuarkXPress Advantage 模式 Cyrillic Type Travel Book，介绍基里尔字母字体设计的俄英双语专著， 由 Schrift Publishers 编著出版 Toshi Omagari (大曲都市). Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type. Thames & Hudson, 2019.（另有日语版，计划于明年 1 月上市） 森泽 2019 年度新字体一览 《书法报》在微信公众号发文批评「汉仪尚巍手书」字体 主播 Eric：字体排印研究者，译者，Type is Beautiful 编辑 蒸鱼：设计师，Type is Beautiful 编辑 欢迎与我们交流或反馈，来信请致 podcast@thetype.com​。如果你喜爱本期节目，也欢迎用支付宝向我们捐赠：hello@thetype.com​。 Type is Beautiful 会员计划已上线，成为我们的会员，即可享受月刊通讯、礼品赠送、活动优惠以及购物折扣等权益。

Show #530   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Tuesday 16th July 2019. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story to save you time.             Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   An update on the podcast disappearing from Spotify: “This is a Spotify issue. All the podcast web browser links do not work currently on Spotify. Spotify is aware of the issue and they are working on a fix.”   2020 LOTUS EVIJA EV HYPERCAR DEBUTS WITH NEARLY 2,000 HP "When Lotus began teasing its new Evija electric hypercar, we were told it would blow our minds. It’s now revealed, and yes, the stats are indeed very impressive." according to Motor1.com: "The Evija is the first new product to come from Lotus since joining the expanding Geely automotive network, and if these figures hold true for the 130 road-going examples slated to begin production next year, it will be one heck of a performer. Lotus says the Evija will boast no less than 1,973 horsepower (1,471 kilowatts), sent to the pavement through four electric motors capable of generating 493hp (368 kW) each. Lotus says the Evija will sprint to 100 km/h (62 mph) in under 3 seconds. While certainly fast, that figure doesn’t sound terribly impressive when you consider many gasoline-powered hypercars can run faster with much less power, not to mention Tesla Model S P100d.  Lotus says the two-seater needs just another 3 seconds to hit 200 km/h (124 mph), and...it will hit 300 km/h (186 mph) in less than 9 seconds."   Lotus says:" As a name, Evija (pronounced ‘E-vi-ya’) means ‘the first in existence’ or ‘the living one’. Hethel, close to the historic city of Norwich in the east of England, UK, has been the home of Lotus since 1966. The company has confirmed production of the Evija will begin there during 2020. The Evija is the first Lotus road car to feature a one-piece carbon fibre monocoque chassis. The cabin, from the fully adjustable race-style seats to the multi-function steering wheel. The Active aerodynamics are deployed in the form of a rear spoiler, which elevates from its resting position flush to the upper bodywork, and an F1-style Drag Reduction System (DRS). Both are deployed automatically in Track mode, though can be deployed manually in other modes. The absence of traditional door mirrors plays a part in reducing drag. Access to the cabin is through the two dihedral doors. Handle-free to preserve the sculpted exterior, they’re operate via the key fob. It’s the first time Lotus has used such doors, and while they make for a moment of dramatic theatre they also provide maximum space for getting in and out. Cameras integrated into the front wings are electronically deployed on unlock, while another camera built into the roof provides a central view. Images are displayed on three interior screens. It also supports fast and convenient servicing and maintenance. Furthermore, the set-up has been designed so that in the future alternative battery packs – for example, to optimise track performance – can be easily installed. Evija is priced from £1.5m-2m plus duties and taxes. A £250,000 refundable deposit secures a production slot. Order books are now open through www.lotuscars.com."   It's 8 times more powerful than a Formula E car. And yes it has an app, yes it does OTA updates!   https://www.motor1.com/news/360174/lotus-evija-ev-hypercar-debuts/   THIS RECORD-SETTING TESLA MODEL S HAS 900,000 KILOMETERS ON ODOMETER "Hansjörg Gemmingen, known in the EV world for setting the mileage record for the first-generation Tesla Roadster (620,000 km / 385,251 miles), just set another milestone, but this time in a Tesla Model S." reports InsideEVs: "Gemmingen has already covered 900,000 km (559,350 miles) according to two images shared on July 14. The Model S P85 (one of the oldest versions) is reportedly running on its second battery pack. That's a remarkable amount of miles for any car and few gasoline-engined cars would go that far without an engine replacement. What's even more impressive is that someone actually drives this much and choose a Tesla to do so."   https://insideevs.com/news/359939/tesla-model-s-900000-kilometers-odometer/   CHINA'S ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING POSTS SURPASSED 1 MILLION IN JUNE "With China all in with electric vehicles, the number of charging posts around the country have been exploding. reports Interesting Engineering: "According to the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance as of the end of June, the number of charging posts has surpassed 1 million. According to Xinhua, the official state-run press agency of the People's Republic of China the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance said charging posts have seen year-over-year growth of 69.3%. China added 140,000 new public charging posts during the last year with amounts to about 11,700 new posts introduced each month."   https://interestingengineering.com/chinas-electric-vehicle-charging-posts-surpassed-1-million-in-june   RAPID CHARGING POINTS 'SHOULD' OFFER CARD PAYMENT OPTION BY 2020 More news from the UK: "The government wants all new electric vehicle rapid charging points to offer drivers the ability to pay using a credit or debit card by next year." says the UK edition of Motor1.com: "In an announcement, the Department for Transport (DfT) said all new charge points “should” offer the facility by the spring of 2020. The government says it “expects” the charging industry to develop a “pay-as-you-go” payment option across the charging network, ensuring drivers do not need a range of smartphone apps or membership cards to charge their vehicles. While the DfT’s statement does not explicitly say companies will be required to offer card payment by next spring, the government has warned the industry that it will “intervene” if it feels “the market is too slow to deliver improvements across the entire network”. However, one charging provider, BP Chargemaster, has already promised to introducing card payment on all new 50kW and 150kW chargers from today (July 15). It will also retrofit the technology to its existing rapid chargers over the coming year."   https://uk.motor1.com/news/359832/rapid-charging-points-card-payments/   VOLKSWAGEN ID.3 ELECTRIC CAR SPOTTED IN NEW ZEALAND "The Volkswagen ID.3 electric hatchback has been spotted in public once again. This time, the ID.3 turned up in the unexpected location of Queenstown, New Zealand." says InsideEVs, and thank you to someone who occasionally sends me shots he's taken from NZ, I won't say this name but he knows who he is! "the ID.3 is being tested in New Zealand by "a few German blokes" whose faces have been concealed. Judging by the dirt on one of the cars, there's been some off-the-beaten-path travel involved."   Forum member Jose Garzon said: "The photo was taken in Queenstown therefore near Wanaka where SHPG (Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds) is based. Plenty of tracks there for winter testing specially calibration. Nowadays development timings are shorter so if possible, companies will either travel north or south to find the corresponding climate to keep their work unstopped. If you want to see it from the positive point of view, this images mean they are performing their final winter fine-tuning activities. On the other hand it can mean, "crap, this is not working and we need to launch the car, send the car to NZ and get it right""   https://insideevs.com/news/360148/vw-id3-spy-new-zealand/   ELECTRIFY AMERICA PETITIONS FOR FIRST-EVER EMOJI IN SUPPORT OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES As modern-day communication evolves, emojis continue to grow in popularity, with 230 new characters being added to major platforms in 2019. As such, it’s important that they be representative of today’s world, which increasingly includes electric vehicles and the stations that charge them.   That’s why Electrify America – with its network of ultra-fast chargers for electric vehicles – has submitted a formal proposal to the Unicode Consortium, the governing body for emoji creation, to introduce the first-ever “Electric Vehicle With Charger” emoji for smartphone keyboards.   COMMUNITY And thanks to MYEV.com they’ve set us another Question Of The Week. 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This week's show begins with some follow up: The FaceTime bug has been zapped with iOS 12.1.4 and some companies are still skeezy! Rene Ritchie, Georgia Dow, and Mikah Sargent have plenty of news to share as well. Apple's retail head Angela Ahrendts is leaving in April and will be replaced by 30-year company veteran Deirdre O'Brien. The Unicode Consortium has approved 230 new emoji for release in 2019. The new update increases the variety of skin tones available for some emoji, and adds depictions of people with various disabilities. There are also new animals, food items, and other objects. Finally, the gang bring it home with their picks of the week. Tune in! Show Notes and Links: Apple releases iOS 12.1.4 with FaceTime bug fix 230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019 Angela Ahrendts leaving Apple, Deirdre O'Brien new SVP of Retail + People Companies are (still) selling your phone location data without consent Eve Home lightstrip Biltong Sponsors: Thrifter.com: All the best deals from Amazon, Best Buy, and more, fussily curated and constantly updated. Hosts: Lory Gil Mikah Sargent Rene Ritchie Georgia Dow  

The latest iOS update gave us new emojis so let's discuss the Emoji Illuminati aka the Unicode Consortium!

Guests: Amanda Hickman: @amandabee | GitHub Amberley Romo: @amberleyjohanna | GitHub | Blog In this episode, Amanda Hickman and Amberley Romo talk about how they paired up to get the safety pin, spool of thread, and the knitting yarn and needles emojis approved by the Unicode Committee so that now they are available for use worldwide. They also talk about how their two path crossed, how you can pitch and get involved in making your own emojis, and detail their quest to get a regular sewing needle approved as well. Resources: Unicode Technical Committee Draft Emoji Candidates The Unicode Consortium Members Sewing-Emoji Repo Proposal for Sewing NEEDLE AND THREAD Emoji This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. Transcript: ROBERT: Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 112 of The Frontside Podcast. I'm Robert DeLuca, a software developer here at the Frontside and I'll be your episode host. With me as co-host is Charles Lowell. Hey, Charles. CHARLES: Hello, Robert. Good morning. ROBERT: Good morning. This is an exciting podcast. Today, we're going to be discussing writing a proposal to the Unicode Committee, getting it accepted and rejected. This is basically making emojis which I think is really awesome. We have two guests today who have an amazing story, Amanda Hickman and Amberley Romo. Thank you both for joining us. You two have an amazing story that I would really love to dive into and we're going to do that today. It's about basically creating your own emoji and getting that accepted so everybody can use that and I think that's super, super cool, something that I've always kind of wanted to do as a joke and it seems like that's kind of where your stories began, so you two want to jump in and start telling? I think Amanda has a great beginning to this. AMANDA: Sure. I mean, hi and thanks for having me. I don't know where to begin and really for me, this starts with learning to sew my own clothes which is an incredibly exasperating and frustrating process that involves a lot of ripping stitches back out and starting over and Instagram was a really big part of me finding patterns and finding other people who are sewing their own clothes and learning from the process. I wanted to be able to post stuff on Instagram and it started to drive me absolutely crazy, that there's emojis for wrenches and nuts and hammers and there are no textile emoji. The best I could find was scissors which is great because cutting patterns is a place where I spend a lot of time procrastinating but that was it. I knew a woman, Jennifer 8 Lee or Jenny who had led a campaign to get the dumpling emoji into the Unicode character set. I knew she'd succeeded in that but I didn't really know much more about how that had worked. I started thinking I'm going write a sewing emoji. I can do this. I can lead this campaign. I started researching it and actually reached out to Jenny and I discovered that she has created an entire organization called... What was that called? She's created an entire organization called Emojination, where she supports people who want to develop emoji proposals. CHARLES: Before you actually found the support system, you actually made the decision that you were going to do this and you found it. You know, from my perspective, I kind of see emoji is this thing that is static, it's there, it's something that we use but the idea that I, as an individual, could actually contribute to that. I probably, having come to that fork in the road would have said, "Nah, it's just it is what it is and I can't change it." What was the process in your mind to actually say, "You know what? I'm actually going to see if I can have some effect over this process?" AMANDA: It definitely started with a lot of anger and being just consistently frustrated but I knew that someone else had already done this. It was sort of on my radar that it was actually possible to change the emoji character set. I think that if I didn't know Jenny's story and it turned out I didn't know Jenny story at all but I thought I knew Jenny story but if I didn't know that basic thing that that somebody I knew who was a mere mortal like me had gone to the Emoji Subcommittee of the Unicode Consortium and petition them to add a dumpling emoji, I am sure that I wouldn't bother. But I knew from talking to her that there was basically a process and that there were a format that they want proposal in and it's possible to write them a proposal. I knew that much just because I knew Jenny. I think at that point, when I started thinking about this, the Emoji 9 -- I should be more of an expert on that actually, on emoji releases but a new release of emoji had come out. There were a bunch of things in that release and it got a little bit of traction on Twitter. I knew that the Unicode Consortium had just announced a whole new slate of emoji, so I also was generally aware that there was some kind of process by which emoji were getting released and expanded and updated. ROBERT: That's interesting. Do you know when that started? Because it seems like Apple started to add more emojis around like iOS 7 or something but it was pretty static for a while right? Or am I wrong? AMANDA: I actually am tempted to look this up but the other piece that is not irrelevant here is that at the time, I was working at a news organization called BuzzFeed that you may have heard of -- ROBERT: Maybe, I don't know. It sounds kind of familiar. AMANDA: I do feel like people kind of know who they are. I was surrounded by emoji all the time: in BuzzFeed, in internet native of the highest order and we had to use emoji all the time and I had to figure out how to get emoji into blog post which I didn't really know how to do before that. I can put them on my phone but that was it. I was immersed in emoji already. I knew that there was a project called Emojipedia, that was a whole kind of encyclopedia of emoji. One of my colleagues at BuzzFeed, a woman named Nicole Nguyen had written a really great article about the variation in the dance emoji. If you look at the dance emoji, one of the icons that some devices use is this kind of woman with her skirt flipping out behind her that looks like she's probably dancing a tango and then one of the icons that other character sets use and other devices use is a sort of round, yellow lumping figure with a rose in its mouth that you sort of want to hug but it's definitely not to impress you with its tango skill. She had written this whole article about how funny it was that you might send someone this very cute dumpling man with [inaudible] and what they would see was sexy tango woman. I think there was some discussion, it was around that time also that Apple replaced the gun emoji with a water gun. There was some discussion of the direction that the various emoji's face. One of the things that I learned around that time was that every device manufacturer produces their own character set that's native to their devices and they look very different. That means that there's a really big difference between putting a kind of like frustrated face with a gun pointing at it, which I don't really think of it as very funny but that sort of like, "I'm going to shoot myself" is very different from pointing the gun the other way which is very much like, "I'm shooting someone else," so these distinctions, what it means that the gun emoji can point two different ways when it gets used was also a conversation that was happening. None of that answers your question, though which is when did the kind of rapid expanse of emoji start to happen. ROBERT: I feel like the story is setting in the place there, though because it seems like there's a little bit of tension there that we're all kind of diverging here a little bit and it's sort of driving back towards maybe standardization. AMANDA: There's actually, as far as I know, no real move toward standardization but the Unicode Consortium has this committee that actually has representatives from definitely Apple and Microsoft and Google and I forget who else on the consortium. Jenny 8 Lee is now on the consortium and she's on the Emoji Subcommittee but they actually do get together and debate the merits of adding additional emoji, whether they're going to be representative. One of the criteria is longevity and I tend to think of this as the pager problem. There is indeed a pager emoji and I think that the Unicode Consortium wants to avoid approving a pager emoji because that was definitely a short-lived device. CHARLES: Right. I'm surprised that it actually made it. Emoji must be older than most people realize. AMANDA: My understanding is that very early Japanese computers had lots emoji. There's a lot of different Japanese holidays that are represented in emoji, a lot of Japanese food as well are represented in emoji, so if you look through the foods, there's a handful of things that haven't added recently but a lot of the original emoji definitely covered Japanese cuisine very well. ROBERT: I definitely remember when I got my first iPhone that could install iPhone OS 2, you would install an app from the App Store that then would allow you to go toggle on the emoji keyboard but you had to install an app to do it and that's kind of where the revolution started, for me at least. I remember everybody starting to sending these things around. AMANDA: But if you look at Emojipedia, which has a nice kind of rundown of historical versions of the Unicodes, back in 1999, they added what I think of as the interrobang, which is the exclamation/question mark together and a couple of different Syriac crosses. Over the years, the committee has added a whole series of wording icons and flags that all make sense but then, it is around, I would say 2014, 2015 that you start to get the zipper mouth and rolling your eyes and nerd face and all of the things that are used in conversation now -- the unicorn face. ROBERT: My regular emojis. AMANDA: Exactly. CHARLES: It certainly seems like the push to put more textile emoji ought to clear the hurdle for longevity, seeing there's kind of like, what? Several millennia of history there? And just kind of how tightly woven -- pun intended -- those things are into the human experience, right? AMANDA: Definitely. Although technically, there's still no weaving emojis. CHARLES: There's no loom? AMANDA: There's no loom and I think that a loom would be pretty hard to represent in a little 8-bit graphic but -- CHARLES: What are the constraints around? Because ultimately, we've already kind of touched on that the emoji themselves, their abstract representations and there are a couple of examples like the dancing one where the representation can vary quite widely. How do they put constraints around the representation versus the abstract concept? AMANDA: You don't have to provide a graphic but it definitely kind of smooths the path if you do and it has to be something that's representable in that little bitty square that you get. It has to be something representable in a letter-size square. If it's not something that you can clearly see at that size, it's not going to be approved. If it's not something you can clearly illustrate at that size in a way that's clearly distinct from any other emoji and also that's clearly distinct from anything else of that image could be, it's not going to be approved. Being able to actually represented in that little bitty size and I don't know... One of sort of sad fact of having ultimately worked with Emojination on the approval process is that we were assigned an illustrator and she did some illustrations for us and I never had to look at what the constraints were for the illustration because it wasn't my problem. ROBERT: Sometimes, that's really nice. AMANDA: Yes, it's very nice. I ended up doing a lot of research. What made me really sad and I don't want to jump too far ahead but one of things that made me really sad is we proposed the slate and the one thing that didn't get approved was the sewing needle and it also didn't get rejected, so it's in the sort of strange nether space. That's kind of stuck in purgatory right now. I did all this research and learned that the oldest known sewing needle is a Neanderthal needle so it predates Homo sapiens and it's 50,000 years old. CHARLES: Yeah. Not having a sewing needle just seem absurd. AMANDA: Yeah. We have been sewing with needles since before we were actually human being. ROBERT: That's a strong case. AMANDA: Yes, that's what I thought. If I sort go back to my narrative arc, I wanted to do a sewing needle and started researching it a little bit -- CHARLES: Sorry to keep you interrupting but that's literally the one that started this whole journey. AMANDA: Yes, I wanted a sewing needle and I really wanted a sewing needle. I did a little research and then I reach out to Jenny and to ask her if she had any advice. She said, "You should join my Slack," and I was like, "Oh, okay. That's the kind of advice." She and I talked about it and she said that she thought that it made more sense to propose a kind of bundle of textile emoji and I decided to do that. She and I talked it through and I think the original was probably something closer to knitting than yarn but we said knitting, a safety pin, thread and needle were the ones that kind of made the most sense. I set about writing these four proposals and one of the things that they asked for was frequently requested. One other thing that I will say about the proposal format is that they have this outline structure that is grammatically very wonky. They ask you to assert the images distinctiveness and they also ask you to demonstrate that it is frequently requested. I found a couple of really interesting resources. One, Emojipedia which is this sort of encyclopedia of emoji images and history maintains a list of the top emoji requests. I actually don't know how they generate that list or who's requesting that and where but I think it's things that they get emailed about and things people request in other contexts and sewing and knitting, I've done on that list and I started compiling it in 2016. ROBERT: To be a part of the proposal process, to show that it is requested, without that resource, you just start scouring Facebook and Twitter and history and shouting to people like, "I really want this emoji. Why it didn't exist?" That seems pretty hard. AMANDA: Actually our proposals all have Twitter screen shots of people grousing about the absence of knitting emoji and yarn emoji and sewing emoji. I know that Emojipedia, they do a bunch of research so they go out and look at based what people are grousing about on Twitter. They look at places where people are publicly saying like, "It's crazy that there's no X emoji," and that's part of their process for deciding what kinds of emojis people are asking for. Their research was one resource but we took screenshots of people saying that they needed a safety pin emoji and that was part of making the case. One of the things that I found as I was doing that research was that, I guess at this point it was almost two years ago, when the character set that included the dumpling emoji came out, there was a bunch of grousing from people saying, "Why is there not a yarn emoji?" There was a writing campaign that I think Lion Brand had adopted. Lion Brand yarn had put in this tweet saying like, "Everyone should complain. We needed a yarn emoji," but it doesn't matter how much you yell on Twitter. If you don't actually write a proposal, you're not going to get anywhere. I had been told that the Emoji Subcommittee, they're really disinclined to accept proposals that had a corporate sponsor, so they weren't going to create a yarn emoji because Lion Brand yarns wanted them to create a yarn emoji. ROBERT: Right, so it was like counter-peer proposal. AMANDA: Right. But as I was digging around the other thing I found was this woman in... I actually don't know if you're in Dallas or Austin but I found Amberley, who also put a post on Twitter and had started a petition, asking people to sign her petition for a yarn emoji proposal or a knitting emoji. I don't remember if it was a yarn emoji or a knitting emoji but I found her petition and reached out to her to ask if she was interested in co-authoring the proposal with me because she had clearly done the work. She actually had figured out how the system worked at that point. I think she knew who she was petitioning, at least. I reached out to Amberley and we worked together to refine our proposal and figure out what exactly we wanted to request. I think there were a bunch of things that were on the original list like knitting needles, yarn and needles. I think crocheting would have been on the original list. We were sort of trying to figure out what was the right set of requests that actually made sense. ROBERT: So then, this is where Amberley stories comes in and it is interesting too because she has entirely different angle for this. Maybe not entirely different but different than outright. This kind of ties back to the word software podcast mostly. It kind of ties back to the software aspect, right? AMBERLEY: Yeah. I think, really they're kind of separate stories on parallel tracks. My motivation was also two-fold like Amanda's was, where I started knitting in 2013 and I had a really good group of nerd friends with a little yarn shop up in DC, like a stitch and ditch group -- ROBERT: I love it. AMBERLEY: It was a constant sort of like, where's the insert emoji here, like where's the yarn emoji? Where's the knitting emoji? And we would sort of sarcastically use the spaghetti emoji because it was the most visually similar but that was something that was in the back of my mind but it teaches you a lot about yourself too because I was like, "Oh, this is like fiber art, not really an emoji. It's kind of technical, like on a tech space," and I didn't really connect that it was relevant or that I might have any power to change it. It just didn't occur to me at the time. ROBERT: Interesting. I feel like a lot of people are in that similar situation or maybe not situation, even though you can make change on this. AMBERLEY: Right, so my brain didn't even make it like, "Why isn't this a thing? let me look at how to make the thing." When that happened for me, Amanda mentioned using emoji and everything in the BuzzFeed space. I love how you explained BuzzFeed a while ago, it's my favorite description of BuzzFeed I ever heard. Something similar that happened for me was I was a software developer and in 2016, the Yarn package manager was released and that kind of turned something on in my head. That was like I'm seeing all these software engineers now be like, "Where's the yarn emoji?" and I'm like, "Welcome to the club." ROBERT: "Do you want to join our Slack? We can complain together." AMBERLEY: Right. It has been like a pretty decent amount of time, I'm semi-seriously ranting and complaining to my coworkers who were primarily male software engineers. I remember I went to [inaudible] in the Frost Bank Tower after work and was just like, "I'm going to figure out how this happens," and I spent a couple hours at the coffee shop. I found the Unicode site and I found their proposal process and their structure for the proposal and everything and I just started doing the research and drafting up a proposal specifically for yarn. Maybe it was a bit naive of me but to me it was like, "Okay, here's the process. I follow the process. Cool." I mean, you have to make a case and it has to be compelling and has to be well-written and it has to be supported and all that and that to me it was like, "Okay, there's a process. At the same time, I did read about the dumpling emoji but I didn't connect it to Emojination and they had started the Kickstarter. We should talk about this later but I think the sort of idea the issue of representation on the committee and who gets to define language is really interesting but I saw that they had done the Kickstarter and there was a campaign aspect to it, so I ended up just building up this simple site so that if anyone Google, they would find yarn emoji. It's still up at YarnEmoji.com and that was how Amanda found me. I got this random email, I sort of like had this burst of energy and I did all the research and I wrote the draft, sort of piecemeal, filling out the different sections of the way they have it outlined on the Unicode site and then I feel like a month or two went by and I had kind of not looked at it for a bit and then, I get this random email from this website that I almost forgot about. It was like, "Hey, I'm working on this series of proposals. If you're working on knitting or yarn or whatever, maybe we could work together," and I was like, "Well, that's sweet." Then she opened up this whole world to me. There's this whole Emojination organization, sort of 100% devoted to democratizing the process of language formation through creating emojis and so then, I got really into that. My primary motivator was yarn. CHARLES: So what's the status of the yarn spool, those emoji right now? AMBERLEY: The yarn, the spool of thread and the safety pin, they're all approved emoji for the 2018 released. Amanda and I are actually at the end. Amanda, a couple of months ago when I saw someone used the spool thread emoji for a Twitter thread -- you know how people will be like all caps thread and have a thread of tweets -- I saw someone do that just out of the blue. I was like, "Oh, my God. Is it out?" and the thing about these individual vendors, it sort of gets released piecemeal, so at the time Twitter have I think released their versions of this series of new emoji but others hadn't. CHARLES: How does that work? Because you think the Twitter would be kind of device depending on what browser you're using, like if you're on a Windows or a Mac or a Linux Box, right? ROBERT: -- Emoji set, right? I know Facebook does this too. AMBERLEY: I'm painfully aware that Facebook does it because I can't use the crossed finger emoji on Facebook because it actually gives me nightmares. ROBERT: I have to go look at this now. AMBERLEY: Because it's so creepy-looking. CHARLES: Okay. Also like Slack, for example is another. It's like a software-provided emoji set. AMANDA: Right. AMBERLEY: I'm not totally sure that Slack actually adheres to the standard Unicode set. I think it's kind of its own thing but I might be wrong about that. AMANDA: Sorry, Slack definitely supports the full Unicode set. They also have a bunch of emoji that they've added that aren't part of the set. AMBERLEY: Slack emojis? AMANDA: Yes. CHARLES: Yeah and then every Slack also has its kind of local Slack emoji. AMBERLEY: Right. CHARLES: But how does that work with --? ROBERT: Okay, this crossed-finger Facebook emoji is... yes, I agree with you, Amberley. AMBERLEY: Thank you. I had yet to find someone who disagrees with me about that. AMANDA: I have never seen it before and I'm now like, "What is going on?" CHARLES: Yeah, so how does it work if a vendor like Twitter is using a different emoji set? How does that work with cut and paste, like if I want to copy the content of one tweet into something else? Are they using an image there? AMANDA: They're using an image. I think it's doesn't happen as much anymore but for a long time, I would often get texts from people and the text message would have that little box with a little code point in it and you were like -- AMBERLEY: More like an alien thing? AMANDA: Yeah. Definitely, if you don't have the emoji character set that includes the glyph that you're looking at, you're going to get that little box that has a description of the code point and I think what's happening is that Twitter is using JavaScript or generally programming. There were air quotes but you can't see. Twitter is using their software to sub in their emoji glyph whenever someone enters that code point. Even if you don't have the most up to date Unicode on your computer, you can still see those in Twitter. If I copy and paste it into a text editor on my computer, what I'm going to see is my little box that says '01F9F5' in it but if I get it into Twitter, it shows up. I can see them on Twitter but I can't see them anywhere else. AMBERLEY: Damn, you really have the code point memorized? AMANDA: No, I -- CHARLES: Oh, man. I was really hoping -- AMBERLEY: Oh, man. ROBERT: You live and breathe it. AMANDA: No, I'm not that compulsive. AMBERLEY: We definitely have our emojis on our Twitter bios, though. AMANDA: Absolutely. ROBERT: If you see Amanda's bio, it's pretty great. AMANDA: They started showing up on Twitter and I think that somebody in Emojination probably told me they were out and that was when I first started using them. Amberley might have actually seen it. It sounds like you just saw it in the wild, which is kind of amazing. AMBERLEY: I saw it in the wild with this tweet thread and yeah, it's just [inaudible]. I was like, "Amanda, is it out?" CHARLES: Yeah, I feel like I saw that same usage too, although I obviously did not connect any dots. AMANDA: This last week, October 2nd -- I'm also looking things up. I'm just going to come to the fact that I am on a computer looking things up so I can fact check myself -- after they actually released their emoji glyph set, so by now any updated iOS device should have the full 2018 emoji, which in addition to a kind of amazing chunky yarn and safety pin, there's also a bunch of stuff. There's a broom and a laundry basket. There's a bunch of really basic, kind of household stuff that certainly belongs in the character set alongside wrenches and hammers. AMBERLEY: I think one of the big ones too for this year was the hijab? AMANDA: No, the hijab actually came out with a dumpling. Hijab has been available -- AMBERLEY: It's been up, okay. ROBERT: So did it come with iOS 12 or 12.1? I don't know for sure. I just know -- AMANDA: I'm looking at it and it's 12.1. I really feel that I should be ashamed that I have used the internet and search for this. AMBERLEY: I would say, I have no idea what their release numbers are. AMANDA: [inaudible] as it appeared for the first time in iOS for 2018 with today's release of the iOS 12.1, Beta 2 for developers. ROBERT: That is amazing. Do you get some kind of satisfaction -- like you have to, right? -- from people using the emoji and it's starting to make its way out there? AMANDA: So much. Oh, my God, yeah. AMBERLEY: I didn't really expect it, like saying that random tweet using this spool of thread for a tweet thread. I just thought and I just got so psyched. For me, I'm a knitter. I have knitter friends and it started with yarn and then really, Amanda and through Amanda, Jenny really sort of broadened my idea of what it all really meant. To think someone using it in the wild for a totally different application than I had ever thought of was like, "That's legit." AMANDA: I definitely have a sewing emoji search in my tweet deck and sometimes, when I'm feeling I need a little self-validation, I'll go look over there and find people who are saying things like, "Why is there no sewing emoji?" and I'll just reply with all the sewing emoji, like it is part of my work in this life to make sure that not only do they exist but people know about them. ROBERT: That is awesome. I would do the same thing, though to be honest. You'll be proud of that. AMANDA: Totally. ROBERT: Were there any hitches in the proposal process? I know we're kind of alluded to it but the thing that you started off one thing, Amanda didn't make it. Right? AMANDA: I know. ROBERT: So how did that process happen from you two meet each other and then going through the actual committee and the review process and then being accepted. What would that mean? AMANDA: The process is actually incredibly opaque. We wrote this whole proposal, a bunch of people edited it, which is one of the other nice things about collaborating with Emojination. There was a bunch of people who are just really excited about emoji and the kind of language making that Amberley was talking about. There's a whole bunch of people who just jumped in and gave us copy edits and feedback, which was super helpful and then, there was a deadline and we submitted it to the committee and it actually shows up in the Unicode register which is also a very official kind of document register. I was a little excited about that too but then they have their meeting. They first have a meeting and there's like a rough pass and the Emoji Subcommittee makes formal recommendations to the Unicode Consortium and then the consortium votes to accept or reject the Emoji Subcommittee's recommendations. It's a very long process but unless you're going and checking the document file and meeting minutes from the Unicode Consortium meetings, you'll never going to know that it happen. AMBERLEY: -- You know someone connected through there because one of the things in our first pass, it wasn't that it was rejected. It was that we needed to modify something. We do have art for knitting needles with yarn because at one point, I think we weren't totally sure that a ball of yarn would be visually distinct enough in this emoji size to look like yarn and so, we had put it with sort of knit piece on knitting needles. AMANDA: Oh, that's right. There was a tease of a little bit of knitted fabric. AMBERLEY: Right and I think that, probably through Jenny or the people actually in the room, the feedback I remember is that there is a crocheter in the room who was like, "Yeah, why isn't there a yarn emoji but knitting needle?" so there was a little bit of like that was how I think we ended up from knitting needles with a fiber piece to ball of yarn, maybe. AMANDA: I think that sounds right. I'm actually sure of that. It's just all coincide with my recollection. There were some things that they had questions about and that happened really fast because I feel like we had a couple of days and they have stuck to our guns and said, "No, we're only interested in knitted bit of fabric." Also, we worked with an illustrator and went back and forth with her because the initial piece that she had illustrated, I feel like the knitting needles were crossing in a way. That was not how knitting works and so, there was a little bit of back and forth around that as well. But then once they decided that the they like the thread, yarn and safety pin, we're going to move to the next stage. I actually had to go back and look at the minutes to find out that the two reasons that they didn't move the sewing needle on to the next stage is when they thought it was adequately represented by the thread, which I wholeheartedly disagree with and they thought it wasn't visually distinctive. That's so much harder because a sewing needle, which is really just a very fine piece of metal with an eye at the end, you get down to a really small size and it is maybe a little hard to know what you're looking at. But I think there's such a big difference between the static object which is the spool or the thread which represents a lot of things and is important and the needle, which is the active tool that you use to do the making, to do the mending, to do the cobbling. CHARLES: Yeah. I'm surprised that it almost isn't reversed when certainly in my mind, which I think is more culturally important in terms of the number of places which it appears, it's definitely the needle as being kind of... Yeah. AMANDA: Yeah and I think that the thread and yarn, they're important and I think that the decision to have a ball of yarn rather than a bit of knitting makes sense because there's a lot of things that you can use a ball of yarn that aren't just knitting and they think that -- AMBERLEY: And it's the first step too that doesn't exclude anyone in the fiber art community. AMANDA: But there's so many things like in sutures and closing wounds, you're not using a little spool of cotton thread for that or polyester thread and stuff like embroidery and beadwork, you might be using thread or fiber of some sort that started on a spool but you might not. Embroidery floss was not sold in a spool and there's all these places where we use needles and all kinds of different size and you don't always use thread. Sometimes, you're using yarn. Sometimes, you're using leather cord. Sometimes, you're using new bits of, I would say Yucca. You're using plant fibers to do baskets and in all of these different practices, that process of hooking it through the eye and sewing it is how it's actually made. It still sort of mystifies me why they haven't accepted it but they also didn't reject it, which is really interesting. I don't know how many other emoji are sort of sitting in this weird nether space because sometimes they just reject them outright. I think there was a proposal for a coin that they just said no. ROBERT: They were a like, "A coin?" That would be [inaudible]. AMANDA: Oh, God. ROBERT: They have to add one for every -- AMANDA: [inaudible]. CHARLES: Literally, the pager of 2017. AMANDA: Exactly. CHARLES: So what recourse is now available to you all and to us, by extension, to get the sewing needle? AMANDA: I'm actually working on a revised proposal and I've been trying to figure out what are all the arguments that I'm missing for why sewing and the needle are not adequately represented by the thread and yarn. A bunch of things that a friend of my named, Mari who's half-Japanese, half-American but lives in Guatemala and does all this kind of arts in textile work, pointed out that there's a whole holiday in Japan devoted to bringing your broken needles and thanking them for their service. I thought that was really cool. I've been trying to formulate what are all of the arguments for the necessity of both a needle and a spool. If anybody has interesting ways to phrase that, I would love for arguments. CHARLES: Yeah but it's hard to imagine the arguments is just anything being more compelling than the arguments the you just laid out that you named about seven context: shoemaking, medicine, different fibers where the needle operates completely and totally independent of the thread. It's looming so large in kind of our collective conscious like holidays, being dedicated to them, except I think the Cro-Magnon pager, which is made out of stone, I believe, the being the artifact that pre-dates... AMANDA: There's the idiom landscape as well. Things like finding a needle in a haystack, that has a very specific meaning -- ROBERT: And for puns. I've been resisting saying a pun this whole time. AMANDA: Oh, share your pun with us. AMBERLEY: Yeah, you have to say it. ROBERT: Well, you could say that trying to get this through the committee is like threading a needle. Butchered but -- AMANDA: There's a biblical quote about getting into heaven -- a camel through the eye of a needle. I forget actually how it... CHARLES: To thread a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven. AMANDA: Exactly and there's this sort of do-re-mi, saw, a needle pulling thread. There are all these places where it's about the needle and somebody had -- CHARLES: It's primarily ancient. AMANDA: I know. CHARLES: It is the prime actor. Maybe, this is a good segue into kind of talking about the makeup of the committee and the decision making process and these kind of what seem like very clear arguments might not be received as such. AMANDA: I certainly don't want to say anything bad about anybody on the committee. CHARLES: No, no, I don't think that there's anything bad. I think that being receptive to things which are familiar to us versus with things that aren't is a very natural human thing and it can be interesting to see that at work and at play. AMANDA: The Unicode Consortium is also evaluating all of these requests for whole language glyphs sets. Lots of languages and lots of character sets that are kind of obvious, like there has to be a sort of like character set like there has to be an Arabic character set but there are a lot of languages that have been left out of that because they're very small minority languages or they are historical languages, where the actual writing is no longer written the same way but there's historical reasons to be able to represent those characters. One of the reasons why the Emoji Subcommittee cares about what gets into the formal character set is that everybody has to accommodate it and there's already been, I think some grousing. People start to moan and groan about how there's too many emoji, then it's too hard to find things. CHARLES: And there's no take backs. AMANDA: There's no take backs. You can't undo it. The committee is made up of representatives from a lot of tech companies primarily, although there's a couple of other kind of odd additional folks on there. I do try to find the committee list and I can find it right now. AMBERLEY: I have it from Emojination. I don't know if it's up to date but Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Shopify and Netflix. The other voting members -- ROBERT: Shopify? AMBERLEY: Yeah, right? The others being the German software company, SAP and the Chinese telecom company, Huawei and the Government of Oman. AMANDA: Yeah, the Government of Oman is a fascinating one. I don't think they're the ones that are biting us on this. Especially for those tech companies, every time the emoji character set adds 10 or 12 emoji, they don't have to accommodate it on their devices. They have to put illustrators on it, they have to deal with everyone saying that the crossed fingers emoji in Facebook looks like I-don't-even-know-what. AMBERLEY: Hey, Amanda. AMANDA: It's all your fault. There's a whole process and there's non-trivial work associated with every single new emoji, so wanting to put the brakes on a little bit and be intentional about where and when they apply that work, it doesn't seem crazy to me. I just want them to approve the thing that I want. AMBERLEY: I like the way that Emojination captures it. I looked at their website earlier and actually, they take it down but their goal quote "Emojination wants to make emoji approval an inclusive representative process." There has to be a process. There's overhead involved but looking at the makeup of the decision makers are not a trivial question. CHARLES: Right. This is a great example like [inaudible] metaphor but these little artifacts, these emojis are literally being woven to the fabric of a global culture and certainly, everybody uses them and they become part of the collective subconscious. It does seem like very important to be democratic in some way. It sounds like there is a process but making sure that everyone has a stake. AMBERLEY: Yeah. ROBERT: What was the reason that they gave for not accepting the needle and thread? Was it like a soft no? You said it's like just hanging out, not really rejected but not accepted. We're going to drop a link in the show notes for the proposal and your GitHub and everything. I'm looking at the PDF that was put together and it seems like it was all a package deal like we talked about. How do they just draw or they just take like a lawyer would, just like draw or cross it out like, "Well, no but we'll take the other ones." AMANDA: Yes, basically. What they did is they need to discuss and I don't know how long they've been meeting but they need to discuss all of the proposals that have been supplied by a particular deadline and -- ROBERT: That sounds painful. AMANDA: Yeah, I mean, it's -- ROBERT: Just imagine the power of thinking about emojis. AMANDA: One of the things that they rejected, I think because there's the smiling poo face. Somebody wanted a frowning poo face and they rejected that. There's a bunch of things that actually do get rejected. I don't know if they've been really care about a smiling poo face versus a frowning poo face. ROBERT: What about an angry one? AMANDA: We got all the feelings of poo. ROBERT: We got important work to do here. AMANDA: But they go through when they're trying to figure out. I think to some degree, you want to get them when they're not tired but I think the status that it's listed right now is committee pushback, so they've set it aside until we have some concerns. We're not going to reject it outright but we're not really sure why this isn't adequately represented. Then their most recent meeting, they just kind of passed on reconsidering it, which is fine because I think I was traveling and my proposal is not done. I really want to make sure that I have consolidated every imaginable argument in one place so -- ROBERT: And make it strong as possible. AMANDA: Yeah. If people want to help the other thing that would be amazing is any and all idioms that you can think of, especially ones that are not in English or European languages, idioms in Central European languages, idioms in Asian languages that refer to needles, either translations of the kind of classic, 'finding a needle in a haystack,' but also any idioms that are kind of unusual and specific to a culture outside of what I have experience with would be amazing for making the case, so this is an international need. ROBERT: Do they need any specific or actionable feedback or do they just say, "We're going to push back on this. We're just not quite sure?" AMANDA: The two things that we're in the minutes -- there are minutes and they publish the minutes to Unicode.org -- were it was not visually distinct, which is not totally crazy. We actually worked with an illustrator to get a different image. The first image was almost at 90 degrees. It was kind of straight up and down and it is a little hard to see and the second is -- ROBERT: Especially, because it's thin. AMANDA: The second image is actually a kind of stylized needle because it's fairly a little fatter and the eye is bigger but it's much more distinctively a needle. I'm hoping that that will also convince them but you have to be able to tell at a very small size that it's a needle. The other thing that they said was that sewing was already represented by the thread, that we didn't need thread and needle but it was literally one line in the minutes that referenced that and then it sort of like, "Did you have somebody in the room or not?" and so, if there is somebody on the committee who is willing to tell you really what their concerns were, then you have some sense of what they're looking for and why they're pushing back. When you can very much see in the earliest emoji character sets that I have a hammer and I have a wrench and I use them but there's these very conventionally male tools. We have all of the kind of office supplies but all of homemaking and housekeeping and textile production, none of them were there until very, very recently. I think it does reflect the gender of the people who've been making these tools, that sewing and knitting weren't important enough as human practices to be included in this glyph set. AMBERLEY: I guess, that's non-trivial to mention because that wasn't an argument that I made in my original yarn draft and Amanda and Jenny sort of pushing to open it up to this whole slate of craft emoji. I didn't realize until they brought that up. I took a stroll through pretty much the whole slate of emoji and you can count on almost one hand the number that represented the creative endeavors or sort of more traditionally known as creative things like camera or painting palette and stuff like that. It was extremely limited. AMANDA: I think they have stuff like that. I think there's a few different variations on the camera and then there's painting palette and that's it. AMBERLEY: Oh, there's the theater mask. AMANDA: Oh, that's right. There is the theater, the happy and sad -- AMBERLEY: And I don't know it exactly and I haven't read the minutes like Amanda has but I think and I hope that that was a particularly compelling piece of that argument. AMANDA: I think they definitely heard it. AMBERLEY: Yeah. CHARLES: Opening it up then, what else is coming in the way of craft? It sounds like this is historical but these pieces are being filled in not only with the work that you all are doing but by other emoji which you're appearing. AMANDA: Yes. CHARLES: And are you in contact with other people who are kind of associated with maybe craft and textiles and other kind of what you're labeling historically creative spaces? AMANDA: I don't think there are anymore with a possible exception. Someone's working on a vinyl record proposal which I think is great. CHARLES: Yeah, that's awesome. ROBERT: Antiquated, though. AMANDA: Maybe not, I don't know. AMBERLEY: Take a stroll through the Emojination Slack and people discussed that. AMANDA: Yeah. If you click at Emojination.org, the whole Airtable database is on there. There's not a lot of other creative ones. A friend of mine got really bent out of shape about the lack of alliums and wrote a whole slate proposal for leeks and scallions and garlic and onions. ROBERT: Oh, there is a garlic one, right? AMANDA: No. I mean, there is -- AMBERLEY: Actually, I'm looking at the Unicode page for current emoji candidates. They first get listed as... I forget the exact order. They become draft candidates and then provisional candidates or vice versa but I don't see any pending further creative ones but garlic and onion are on there. AMANDA: Yes. ROBERT: That makes my Italian a little happy. AMANDA: I think there's some prosthesis, the mechanical leg and the mechanical arm, a guide dog -- AMBERLEY: Ear with hearing aid, service dog. AMANDA: Yeah, there's a good chunk of interesting things that have been left out. I guess they've been approved by the subcommittee but are still waiting on final approval by the Unicode Consortium. ROBERT: Okay. What are the next steps that we can do to help push the thread and needle proposal through it. You mentioned a couple things like coming up with idioms that are in different languages and whatnot but how can we contact you and push this effort and help? AMANDA: That's such a good question. I don't even know. I mean, I am Amanda@velociraptor.info and you're totally welcome to email me if you want to help with this and I will -- ROBERT: That's a great domain, by the way. AMANDA: Unfortunately, there's no information about velociraptors anywhere on that site. ROBERT: That's the way it should be. AMANDA: But also, if you're excited about working on emoji proposals, Emojination is an incredibly great resource and folks there, including me actually will help you identify things that are on other people's wish lists that you could work on if you just want to work on something and we'll help you refine your proposal if you know what you want and we'll help you figure out whether it's worth putting the time in or not and how to make it compelling. You can definitely check out Emojination.org. I think there's a path to get on to the Slack from there. AMBERLEY: Oh, yeah. The Slack and the Airtable. AMANDA: Yeah. ROBERT: It sounds like there's a whole community that was born out of this, where everybody is trying to help each other and collaborate and get their shared ideas across. AMANDA: Definitely and there's a woman, Melissa Thermidor who is fantastic, who actually is a social media coordinator. It's her actual title but she works for the National Health Service in the UK and was tasked with getting a whole series of health-related emoji passed. There's a bunch of things that she's -- AMBERLEY: Is she's the one doing blood. AMANDA: She's doing blood. AMBERLEY: That's a good one. AMANDA: Because there's a lot of really important health reasons why you need to be able to talk about blood and getting blood and blood borne illnesses and -- AMBERLEY: That one was listed on the emoji candidate page or blood donation medicine administration. AMANDA: Yeah. ROBERT: That's really interesting, so she works for the government, right? and that was part of her job to do that? AMANDA: Yes. ROBERT: That's awesome, actually. I love that. AMANDA: Yeah, I think the drop of blood, the bandage and the stethoscope are the three that are in the current iteration, which is interesting because the existing medical emoji were the pill and that gruesome syringe with a little drops of fluid flying off of it, which do not do a lot to encourage people to go to the doctor. ROBERT: No, not at all. AMANDA: So a few more, we're welcoming medical emoji. ROBERT: You have a GitHub. Is that where you're still doing for the follow up and the prep work for the sewing emoji? AMANDA: Yeah, that's probably the best place. I do have a Google Docs somewhere but that's probably a better place to connect even than my ridiculous Velociraptor email. The GitHub -- ROBERT: But it's still awesome. AMANDA: It is awesome. I won't lie. I'm very proud of it. I am AmandaBee -- like the Bumble Bee -- on GitHub and the sewing emoji, the original proposals are there and I will make sure that there is information about how to plug into the revised needle proposal there as well. You guys are a tech podcast, so if people want to just submit suggestions as issues on that repository, that's awesome. We'll totally take suggestions that way. ROBERT: That would be pretty rad. Well, I appreciate you two being on the podcast. I love hearing your stories and how it ended up converging in parallel tracks but it end up achieving the same goal. Still unfinished, right? Let's see if we can help push this over the finish line and get it done because I would really like to see a needle. I could definitely use that in many of my conversations already now, making all kinds of puns. Thank you, Amanda for coming on and sharing your story. AMANDA: Thanks for having me. ROBERT: And thank you, Amberley for also coming on and sharing your story. This was super awesome. AMBERLEY: Yeah and thank you for connecting us to finally have a voice conversation. AMANDA: I know. It's great to actually talk to you, Amberley. CHARLES: Oh, wow, this is the first time that you actually talked in audio? AMANDA & AMBERLEY: Yeah. ROBERT: We're making things happen here. The next thing we have to do is get this proposal through and accepted. AMANDA: Yes. CHARLES: You've converted two new faithful sewing and needle partisans here and I'm in. AMANDA: Awesome. ROBERT: I know you've already gotten, what? Three through accepted? AMANDA: Yeah. ROBERT: We talked about that, it's got to be really awesome. I think I want to try and jump in and get that same satisfaction because a lot of people use emojis. AMANDA: Exactly. CHARLES: It definitely makes me think like you look at every single emoji and there's definitely a story. Especially for the ones that have been added more recently, there's a lot of work that goes into every single pixel. That represents a lot of human time, which I'm sure you all know, so thank you. AMANDA: Thanks for having us on. AMBERLEY: Yeah, thank you guys. ROBERT: Cool. That is the podcast. We are Frontside. We build UI that you can stick your future on. I really love this podcast because it wasn't necessarily technical but had a lot of interesting conversation about how to work with a proposal and probably make a bigger impact than any of us with software, just because the sheer reach that emojis have are insane and the fact that you can influence this process is new to me and really cool, so I hope a lot of other people learn from that too. If you have any feedback that you would like to give us on the podcast, we're always open to receive feedback. We have our doors and ears open, so if you like to send an email at Contact@Frontside.io or shoot us a tweet or DM us at @TheFrontside on Twitter. We'd love to hear it. Thank you, Mandy for producing the podcast. She always does an amazing job with it. You can follow her on Twitter at @TheRubyRep. Thanks and have a good one.

Javier va al teatro pero no nos quiere contar, en cambio nos habla sobre la paradoja de compositores famosos pero desconocidos. Luego él y Pedro hablan sobre el nuevo candidato a emoji de mate, Pedro viaja al futuro y después vuelve para naufragar juntos en las traicioneras aguas de la ortografía y gramática del español.Notas del episodioEl paraíso perdido de Cesar BrieQuirino Cristiani, autor de primeros dos largometrajes animados del mundo (Wikipedia)Las Aventuras del Príncipe Achmed (Wikipedia)Jason Derulo - Coca Cola promotional Anthem (YouTube)Cancion oficial (creemos) del Mundial de Rusia (YouTube)Max Martin (Wikipedia)Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way (YouTube)Kelly Klarkson - Since U Been Gone (YouTube)Katy Perry - California Gurls (YouTube)Cover jazzero de Shake It Off por Javier (YouTube)O Zone - Dragostea din tei (YouTube)Numa Numa (YouTube)The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go (YouTube)Propuesta para emoji de mate (PDF)Regla del Unicode Consortium contra emojis de edificios específicos o monumentosLista de candidatos a próximos emoji, incluyendo emoji de mate (Archive.org)Los Gatos - La balsa (YouTube)Cabo de Hornos (Wikipedia)Canal de Panamá (Wikipedia)Cervecería Oranjeboom (Wikipedia en inglés)Entrevista al historietista Salvador Sanz (YouTube)

This past week saw two big developer conferences unload several boxes of announcements, as Google I/O and Microsoft Build fought for media attention like "Godzilla vs. Gamera". El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the ramped-up interest in artificial intelligence coming out of both conferences, along with other headlines from around the technosphere. J.D. also offers suggestions for dealing with an excess of emoji, and previews new characters under consideration by the Unicode Consortium. Come sit a spell and join us for Episode 272!

Your App Lady  Show Notes Episode 31 Welcome to episode 31 of the Your App Lady Podcast! All about apps and tech that I love and use every day. On each episode, I’ll talk about recent tech news, recommend apps that I use myself and leave you with a great tech tip. Tech News Apple recently submitted a proposal to add 13 new emojis to the Unicode Consortium. They include a prosthetic arm and leg, hearing aids, as well as people using sign language and a wheelchair. Apple worked with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, the American Council of the Blind and National Association of the Deaf, to develop the emojis. For more information: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17193020/apple-emojis-disability-representation-media-carrie-wade-interview Featured App: Spending Tracker Available for iPhone, iPad, Windows and Android I use Spending Tracker everyday to increase my awareness of how much my family is spending and how much we are saving. Spending Tracker is easy to use and helps me feel more control over my money. I track expense by the month but the app allows you to choose to track expenses weekly, monthly or yearly.  You can also set a budget in the app. You can schedule repeated transactions daily, weekly or monthly as well as export data to CSV for use in a spreadsheet or export the data to a PDF for viewing and printing. I was able to edit expense and income categories and add custom categories. I can also sync my entries on Spending Tracker on all of my iOS devices. The data can be backed up on Dropbox. Tech Tip Wrestling with AutoCorrect? I often find that autocorrect changes my words incorrectly. I finally found out how to correct this! This article says that the keyboard’s dictionary file may have saved incorrect entries. If you do not have a lot of custom words you have saved and want to start over so the auto-correction tool learns new words from now on, you can delete the old dictionary. To do this, open the Settings app on the home screen. Next, select General and scroll to the bottom of the list. Select Reset and then Reset Keyboard Dictionary. You may be asked to enter your passcode. Then delete the old dictionary. If you do not want to delete the current dictionary, you can turn off the auto-correction tool and make other adjustments in the iOS keyboard settings. Tap the Settings icon on the iPhone’s Home screen and choose General. Scroll down the screen and select Keyboard. If you have a tendency to repeat typos in certain words or want to expand abbreviations into full phrases, tap Text Replacement to set up automatic replacements as you type. For more information: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/technology/personaltech/auto-correct-iphone.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Ftech-tip&action=click&contentCollection=personaltech®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=13&pgtype=collection Thanks for listening to Your App Lady today!  Share the podcast with your friends, they’ll thank you for it! Get our newsletter and stay up to date by clicking here. Betsy can guide you through designing (or redesigning) your app or websites. Contact her at betsy@yourapplady.com or 713-542-8118 to get details about working with her. Follow me Twitter: @yourapplady Instagram: @yourapplady Facebook: @yourapplady LinkedIn: @BetsyFurler Website: www.yourapplady.com Voice over work by John Swasey - VO Producer -281-794-6551 johnswasey@sbcglobal.net

This week: the HomePod reviews are coming out hot and heavy, and they’re surprising.  We’ll tell you what people like, love, and hate about Apple’s new speaker. Plus: something strange is happening at Apple HQ… we’ll tell you more.    This episode supported by   Casper’s American-made mattresses have just the right amount of memory foam and latex, and people everywhere love them.  Learn why and get $50 towards any mattress at Casper.com/cultcast.   Print postage from your office and take advantage of special shipping discounts at pb.com/cultcast, and beat the postage rate increase with exclusive discounts on letters.  Plans start at just $5 a month!   CultCloth will keep your iPhone X, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad sparkling clean, and for a limited time use code CULTCAST at checkout to score a free CleanCloth with any order at CultCloth.co.   On the show this week @erfon / @bst3r / @lkahney   HomePod meta review: Superb sound, stupid Siri https://www.cultofmac.com/527523/homepod-meta-review-great-sound-shitty-siri/ Apple seeded a few review units to major outlets ahead of this Friday’s HomePod launch. The embargo lifted Tuesday morning, and the early reviews reveal a few surprising tidbits about the HomePod.   HomePod sound quality is amazing TechCrunch: “Apple’s HomePod is easily the best sounding mainstream smart speaker ever. It’s got better separation and bass response than anything else in its size and boasts a nuance and subtlety of sound that pays off the 7 years Apple has been working on it.”   HomePod sounds better than expensive speakers WSJ: “The HomePod sounds noticeably richer and fuller than almost every other speaker we’ve testedApple’s audio engineering team did something really clever and new with the HomePod, and it really works. I’m not sure there’s anything out there that sounds better for the price, or even several times the price.   HomePod sucks at music recommendations Apple frames the ability to tell Siri to play your favorite music, and immediately hear soothing tones blasted out of the speaker, as one of the HomePod’s main draws. Cupertino promises that Siri will learn your musical tastes over time, but based on The New York Times’ review, that’s not what actually happens.   HomePod only syncs with one iCloud account That sucks if you don’t live alone.   Not a very good assistant Siri is limited and doesn’t compete with Alexa or Google intelligence. TechCrunch: Siri doesn’t do a lot of “other” stuff that isn’t about audio content. Apple says this is because the vast majority of people use these speakers for basic commands like playing music and setting timers. But it does offer best-in-class voice recognition, vastly outstripping the ability of other smart speakers to hear you trying to trigger a command at a distance or while music is playing, but its overall flexibility is stymied by the limited command sets that the Siri protocol offers. Siri can’t even set more than one timer Siri can’t recognize multiple voices (someone could ask it to read your texts, or even send an iMessage)   You can use Spotify via AirPlay, but you can’t control it with your voice   The smarts are in the music tech When plugged in, HomePod goes through a series of aural exercises you first plug it in to determine how best to structure its sound. It also includes an accelerometer, so if you move the speaker, it will retune itself. Eddie Cue revealed recently that HomePod will adjust how it sounds to each song you play based on Apple’s analytics.   Redheads and superheroes included in 150+ new emojis for 2018 https://www.cultofmac.com/527963/red-heads-superheroes-included-150-new-emoji-2018/ The Unicode Consortium has approved more than 150 new emoji characters that will likely be headed to iOS and macOS later this year. The Unicode Consortium has approved more than 150 new emoji characters that will likely be headed to iOS and macOS later this year.   Apple hiring spree means something big is on the way https://www.cultofmac.com/527819/apple-hiring-spree-means-something-big-way/ Apple has been busy hiring a record number of engineers over the last few months. The move comes after the company also went on a designer hiring spree, indicating a major new product or two could be in the works. Job openings for engineering jobs at Apple rose 80% from the period starting in September until just last week. The company’s listings went from 665 open hardware engineering positions to 1,198 last week. What exactly Apple is working on is anyone’s best guess right now, but check out these job listings: Analog Layout Designer, Advanced Material Scientist (Electrolyte Development), 3D Perception/Computer Vision Algorithm Engineer, Sensor Design Engineer, Motion Sensing Hardware Engineer: Magnetics, and even a Flexible Display Technologist. There are hundreds of other titles up for grabs though so probably only a few people at Apple really know the full picture   What we’re INTO   Poke-Bowls https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/poke-bowl-recipes_us_5743abb0e4b0613b512b1bfd   The Shape of Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFYWazblaUA   iPhone X and its incredible camera https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/

Alright, so if we really wanted to be accurate than using a Globe Eggplant emoji as a metaphor for male genitalia is probably not the most appropriate shape. Now, if you used a Japanese Eggplant emoji, which is longer and uniformly thinner,  then you would be on the right track. And, if you are already confused, and don’t know what a globe eggplant is. Well, it’s large, dark purple, and has a bulbous end to it. Photo Credit: USDAgov via Compfight cc  There are a few caveats  to the eggplant’s new role as an anatomy substitute that I should lay out. First, this is primarily a North American, I-Phone user phenomenon. The tech giant, Apple, uses a different set of emojis compared to Android phones.  And, it just so happens that Apple’s eggplant is better suited as a penis replacement compared to the Android eggplant.  Also, the reason this is mainly a North American phenomenon is for the same reason why I wanted to talk about the eggplant in the first place, because for the most part, we don’t eat it.  The fact that we in North America don’t have a cultural connection to the plant has allowed some of us to create our own meaning uninhibited from past experiences.  For example, we could use the Corn on the Cob emoji; however, most of us have actually ate corn on the cob. Chomping down into the cooked kernels and getting little bits of corn stuck between our teeth. That experience could possibly put a damper on the metaphor. I don’t know about you, but every time I eat corn on the cob I’m not necessarily thinking of a sexual act, and if I am then it is definitely a painful one. It’s good to note that none of this is new.  From the use of the banana in sex-ed as a training tool  to imagery found in medieval paintings we have created a tradition of using food as a means to describe sexual behaviour.  In 1518, a painter by the name of Giovanni da Udine painted garlands of fruits and flowers. In one of his paintings he painted a squash, with eggplant for testicles, penetrating a fig. Giovanni da Udine, detail of border surrounding Raphael’s Cupid and Psyche, Villa Farnesina, Rome. Nicole Dacos and Caterina Furlan, Giovanni de Udine, 1487–1561, Udine [Italy]: Casamassima, 1987, Vol. 1, p. 26 In Mesopotamia they used the same words to describe the abundance of a garden as they would to indicate sexual attractiveness.  There is a love poem from ancient Sumerian Literature, which describes the subject as an apple tree with fruit on the top vigorously sprouting and then watering some lettuce and watering some more. There’s definitely a lot of watering occurring.        Vigorously he sprouted, vigorously he sprouted and sprouted watered it --it being lettuce! In his shaded grove of the desert bearing much yield did my darling of his mother, my barley stalk full of allure in its furrow, water it -- it being lettuce, did my one -- a very apple tree bearing fruit at the top -- water it -- it being a garden!  The reason behind our sexualization of food is censorship. Whether it be a thousand years ago or today, in certain public forums we have just never been able to freely discuss and communicate sex, and so we must improvise. If there was actually a penis emoji then we wouldn’t have to use the eggplant and I could write an article on nightshades instead. Fruits and vegetables also just make sense. They are the produce that nourishes and feeds a desire--hunger. They also hold the seeds for future reproduction. In a sense, we are mimicking human biology into plant biology. Which brings me back to the Durex Condom and my naivete. Turns out, Durex also believes that an eggplant flavoured condom would not be so tasty. The condom is in fact not real, but a clever marketing attempt to get the Unicode Consortium to create a safe sex emoji.  Although I understand that painters who lived 500 years ago would need to be creative with their fruits and veggies, I don’t understand in this day and age why we need to cont...

Lucy asks Ariel Bogel how we should talk to young boys about the 'Porn Ring Scandal', a scandal where more than 200 non-consensual, intimate photos of teens and young women were posted in a global 'porn ring' - Australian police in Queensland chose to blame the victim. They also discuss the recent push for an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to be included in the Emoji keyboard. What is accepted as a new emoji rests with the Unicode Consortium.

This week: the controversy around iOS 10’s new gun emoji;  we compare Instagram’s new stories feature to Snapchat's; Gwyneth Paltrow brings her coding skills to ‘Planet of the Apps’; we attended a 5-day Apple II festival, we’ll tell you the cool parts; and stick around for the best ways to find specific Pokémon in 'Pokémon GO’.   This episode supported by   Build a beautiful, responsive website quick at Squarespace.com.  Enter offer code CultCast at checkout to get 10% off. Squarespace—Build it Beautiful.   If you’re obsessive about keeping your iPhone, iPad, Mac, DSLR, glasses, and other gadgets in sparkling clean condition, you’ll love CultCloth.  Check them out now at CultCloth.co, and use code “CultCast” at checkout to score a free 8x8 CleanCloth!   We also want to give Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com a  thanks for the great music you hear on today's show.   On the show this week @erfon / @bst3r / @alexeheath   Gwyneth Paltrow is bringing her coding skills to ‘Planet of the Apps’ http://www.cultofmac.com/441089/gwyneth-paltrow-is-bringing-her-coding-skills-to-planet-of-the-apps/#more-441089 Paltrow will be joined by will.i.am and serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk on the show where all three will serve as mentors and advisors to app developers in the series that will reportedly act as a launch pad to exceptional developers.   iOS 10 adds 100+ emoji to promote gender equality http://www.cultofmac.com/440607/ios-10-adds-100-emoji-to-promote-gender-equality/ The latest beta build of iOS 10 seeded to developers this morning brings more gender options to existing characters like the surfer, runner, weightlifter, detective, construction worker and much more. The pistol emoji has been changed to a water gun, too   Apple is replacing the pistol emoji with a squirt gun http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-pistol-squirt-gun-emoji-apple-20160802-snap-story.html Emojis are not made by Apple. They are selected, designed and coded by a nonprofit organization called the Unicode Consortium. Platforms like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and Facebook decide exactly how those characters will appear on the device you're using. Apple is reinterpreting how it will "read" the pistol emoji. Instead of depicting it as a metal revolver, it will show the green toy water pistol. In June, Apple asked the Unicode Consortium to exclude a scoped shooting rifle from the upcoming set of emojis. Unicode complied, and the rifle was scrapped. Emoji are funny, but they’re also a powerful way to communicate. This move by Apple communicates that tools of violence and death shouldn’t be part of our light-hearted, ubiquitous lexicon. (the Guardian)   Instagram’s new feature is a ripoff of Snapchat Stories http://www.cultofmac.com/440801/instagrams-new-feature-is-a-ripoff-of-snapchat-stories/ company introduced Instagram Stories, which lets you share multiple photos and videos in a single slideshow. It can be shared with select followers without showing up on your more public profile. It then disappears 24 hours later. It functions in the same way as the Stories feature on Snapchat   There's a new way to find specific Pokémon in 'Pokémon GO,' and it works http://www.techinsider.io/skiplagged-pokevision-alternative-shows-pokemon-locations-in-pokemon-go-2016-8

02:39 - Cameron Dutro Introduction Twitter GitHub Lumosity 02:39 - Internationalization vs Localization 05:28 - How important is internationalization? 13:54 - Internationalization and Accessibility The Tragedy of the Commons Developer Ignorance/Indifference 19:43 - Tools Twitter Translation Center Rosette txgh Transifex 24:48 - How can small companies internationalize? 26:22 - Crowdsourcing Contributor Covenant 30:34 - People Have Names Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World @ RubyConf AU 2013 34:54 - Gender I18n, l10n, m10n: Abbreviations for Internationalization, Localization, and Minimization 39:35 - Educational Resources Rails Guides on Internationalization ICU - International Components for Unicode twitter-cldr-rb CLDR - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository 47:14 - Unicode Unicode Consortium Aditya Mukerjee: I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name   Picks I17n.rb - Intranumeralization (David) Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (David) Mogo Portable Active Office Chair (Sam) Richard Schneems: Saving Sprockets (Coraline) Calvino Noir (Coraline) ICU (Cameron) CLDR (Cameron) twitter-cldr-rb (Cameron) Hacknet (Cameron) Golden State Warriors (Cameron)

02:39 - Cameron Dutro Introduction Twitter GitHub Lumosity 02:39 - Internationalization vs Localization 05:28 - How important is internationalization? 13:54 - Internationalization and Accessibility The Tragedy of the Commons Developer Ignorance/Indifference 19:43 - Tools Twitter Translation Center Rosette txgh Transifex 24:48 - How can small companies internationalize? 26:22 - Crowdsourcing Contributor Covenant 30:34 - People Have Names Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World @ RubyConf AU 2013 34:54 - Gender I18n, l10n, m10n: Abbreviations for Internationalization, Localization, and Minimization 39:35 - Educational Resources Rails Guides on Internationalization ICU - International Components for Unicode twitter-cldr-rb CLDR - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository 47:14 - Unicode Unicode Consortium Aditya Mukerjee: I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name   Picks I17n.rb - Intranumeralization (David) Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (David) Mogo Portable Active Office Chair (Sam) Richard Schneems: Saving Sprockets (Coraline) Calvino Noir (Coraline) ICU (Cameron) CLDR (Cameron) twitter-cldr-rb (Cameron) Hacknet (Cameron) Golden State Warriors (Cameron)

02:39 - Cameron Dutro Introduction Twitter GitHub Lumosity 02:39 - Internationalization vs Localization 05:28 - How important is internationalization? 13:54 - Internationalization and Accessibility The Tragedy of the Commons Developer Ignorance/Indifference 19:43 - Tools Twitter Translation Center Rosette txgh Transifex 24:48 - How can small companies internationalize? 26:22 - Crowdsourcing Contributor Covenant 30:34 - People Have Names Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World @ RubyConf AU 2013 34:54 - Gender I18n, l10n, m10n: Abbreviations for Internationalization, Localization, and Minimization 39:35 - Educational Resources Rails Guides on Internationalization ICU - International Components for Unicode twitter-cldr-rb CLDR - Unicode Common Locale Data Repository 47:14 - Unicode Unicode Consortium Aditya Mukerjee: I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name   Picks I17n.rb - Intranumeralization (David) Patrick McKenzie: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (David) Mogo Portable Active Office Chair (Sam) Richard Schneems: Saving Sprockets (Coraline) Calvino Noir (Coraline) ICU (Cameron) CLDR (Cameron) twitter-cldr-rb (Cameron) Hacknet (Cameron) Golden State Warriors (Cameron)

This week we're asking one of the fundamental questions of our time. Ryan is away, but Katie sits down with future emoji-Pulitzer winner and Senior Tech Writer Charlie Warzel to mine the shadowy depths of the Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Consortium is the organization that decides which emojis make it into rotation, and the backstory is very :thinking face emoji: Julia also goes out on the street to ask people which of their recently used emojis symbolizes their love life and Katie presents this week's most delightful tweet. Read more from Charlie here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/inside-emojigeddon-the-fight-over-the-future-of-the-unicode And here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/thanks-to-apples-influence-youre-not-getting-a-rifle-emoji Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Por incrível que pareça, houve um tempo em que não conversávamos por imagens e palavras escritas em tempo real. A maioria de nossa comunicação era feita por voz, gestos ou longas cartas. Hoje isso ficou pra trás, e tirando um ou outro que insiste em mandar notas de voz, imagens e símbolos são as principais ferramentas para conversarmos. Unicode Consortium? http://unicode.org/ Emojipedia? http://emojipedia.org/ Candidatos de Maio? http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-candidates.html Porta dos Fundos - Emoticon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UptRVmFtMg Emoji de dançarino ? http://emojipedia.org/dancer/ Emoji da Berinjela? http://emojipedia.org/aubergine/ Emoji da Mulher com orelhas de coelho? http://emojipedia.org/woman-with-bunny-ears/ Carinha com lingua? http://emojipedia.org/face-with-stuck-out-tongue-and-tightly-closed-eyes/ Piscadela? http://emojipedia.org/winking-face/ Piscadela com lingua? http://emojipedia.org/face-with-stuck-out-tongue-and-winking-eye/ Emojidick? http://www.emojidick.com/ Not Bad Meme?? http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/obama-rage-face-not-bad Relay comprado pelo Kik http://www.tecmundo.com.br/apps/66353-kik-compra-relay-app-retirado-ar-dezembro.htm Zuckerberg Dislike Button? http://mashable.com/2015/09/16/dislike-button-mark-zuckerberg/ Radiolab sobre engenheiros do Facebook? http://www.radiolab.org/story/trust-engineers/