Emoticons on Social Network: Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo
when you post Unicode emoticons on Facebook, some of them get turned into images automatically.
![emoticon thumb facebook](i/emoticon_thumb_facebook.png)
here's the actual Unicode characters:
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ โ โ โ ๐ ๐ ๐ฑ ๐ธ ๐ธ ๐ฝ ๐
Here is what Sina Weibo (a social network in China) shows:
![emoticon thumb sina weibo](i/emoticon_thumb_sina_weibo.png)
You can see that, they have different style of drawings, and not all Unicode emoticons are changed to images.
This is a conscious decision. When you design the website, you have to decide which Unicode characters should be changed to images, and you have to have a graphic artist to draw the emoticons.
Here is more comparison:
![emoticon smiley facebook 2014-03-27](i/emoticon_smiley_facebook_2014-03-27.png)
![emoticon smiley sina weibo 2014-03-27](i/emoticon_smiley_sina_weibo_2014-03-27.png)
![emoticon smiley twitter 2014-04-02](i/emoticon_smiley_twitter_2014-04-02.png)
Here is the Unicode characters:
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ , ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ , ๐ ๐ ๐ , ๐ด ๐ฉ ๐ซ ๐ช , ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ , ๐ฎ ๐ฏ ๐ฐ ๐ฑ ๐ฒ ๐ณ ๐ต ๐ถ ๐ท , ๐ ๐ ๐ก , ๐ ๐ ๐ฃ ๐ค ๐ฅ ๐ฆ ๐ง ๐จ ๐ฌ , ๐ข ๐ญ
Note: on Google Plus, Unicode emoticon characters are not changed to images.
Twitter, as of today , started to show emoticons as images.
![emoticon clothing twitter 2014-04-02](i/emoticon_clothing_twitter_2014-04-02.png)
Cat Faces Emoticons on Twitter and Facebook
![emoticon cat faces Twitter 2014-04-08](i/emoticon_cat_faces_Twitter_2014-04-08.png)
![emoticon cat faces Facebook 2014-04-08](i/emoticon_cat_faces_Facebook_2014-04-08.png)
Original unicode cat face characters: ๐ธ ๐น ๐บ ๐ป ๐ผ ๐ฝ ๐พ ๐ฟ ๐
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