What I still don't understand is how the "standard" got to the point of defining what the image should be, but basically not what it looks like. That's the only part that puzzles me.
What the difference between these?
aaaFont/typeface licensing has allowed me to type "a" three times, with three different but similar looking symbols. Unicode doesn't own the rights to a font, instead, they are provided non prescriptive licenses to show the emoji typefaces as an example alongside the text descriptions. The fonts used in the Unicode document are licensed from these companies or people:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/fonts.htmlA connection that has helped me ponder emoji is seeing them really no different then other character systems I don't personally use daily, but millions around the world do. I was born in the US, raised with a latin character set and US English spelling.
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