Comments | sps: The future is here, and it's MONKEYS!

sps

The future is here, and it's MONKEYS!

Jan 28, 2011 09:09

Unicode 6.0.

U+1F648 Unicode character SEE-NO-EVIL MONKEY! 🙈🙈🙈🙈

I kid you not.

Some day soon it will appear here! 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

Comments 12

hendrikboom January 28 2011, 18:49:05 UTC

Yup. Here they are, along with a host of other emoticons:

http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-6.0/U60-1F600.pdf

-- hendrik

hendrikboom January 28 2011, 18:50:59 UTC

Do you happen to know if they are letters? Can we use them as variable names in Scheme?

-- hendrik

sps January 28 2011, 19:02:04 UTC

Oh, now this is tricky. In my own language designs, do I want see-no-evil monkey to be a letter or an operator? Do we want dyadic see-no-evil monkey? I'm thinking that the monkeys are verbs but the cats are nouns.

Hm, are any of the emoji brackets? Quotation marks?

Or perhaps hear no evil monkey and speak no evil monkey need to be reserved for pragmatic markup. I begin to think the "evil" in question may be side effects....

pphaneuf February 18 2011, 05:17:02 UTC

Oh, man, you can use any Unicode character in Go identifiers. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy...

sps February 18 2011, 05:32:51 UTC

Yes, well. When I was a grad student I rather boggled Hendrik by writing some code for his own Lisp dialect that he found non-obvious. Seemingly he was unaware that backspace-backspace-linefeed was a valid identifier.

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swestrup January 28 2011, 20:41:02 UTC

This post is the 8th hit when googling for "U+1F648 Unicode character SEE-NO-EVIL MONKEY!", and your journal as a whole is now the 9th hit.

sps January 28 2011, 20:55:43 UTC

The modern world is a disturbing place, and getting disturbinger. "Unicode character see-no-evil" comes here, too.

swestrup January 28 2011, 20:59:08 UTC

Turns out I already had the font with the character installed, and firefox doesn't show it, despite it my version supposedly being 6.0 compatible. Hrmph.

Maybe I don't have a sufficiently up-to-date copy of Symbola. I dunno.

ims January 29 2011, 09:47:16 UTC

I could have sworn 1F64A was BARFING MONKEY at first glance, but it seems not.

sps February 18 2011, 05:34:24 UTC

We need to write to the committee, pronto! BARFING MONKEY is a distinct character, and urgently needs its own codepoint! DEFECATING MONKEY is completely missing! What were they thinking????

ims February 18 2011, 10:11:38 UTC

They did at least remember the all-important 1F46F WOMAN WITH BUNNY EARS.