Japanese emoticons
Here is a fairly comprehensive list of Japanese emoticons, known in Japanese as kaomoji ("face letters").
In the world of computers, Japanese is a double-byte language. That's one reason Japanese text more difficult to implement electronically than single-byte languages like English were. But then two bytes means more possibility for creating things like kaomoji.
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posted by Mellow Monk @ 11:40 AM
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I love emoticons! *_*
1. Lots of apps (most?) are Unicode these days, typically being stored in memory as UTF-16, where even English takes up 2 bytes per character.
2. Japanese takes up *3* bytes in UTF-8, which is another extremely common encoding now.
3. Unicode now covers more than 2 bytes, and some Chinese characters thus take *4* bytes in UTF-16 using "surrogate pairs."
So it's time to stop referring to languages as being single byte or multi-byte, because they're not. Encodings *are*, so being specific always makes things okay. Shift-JIS, for instance, is a 2-byte encoding.
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