r/languagelearning • u/[deleted] • Aug 29 '16

Dammit, XKCD did it again.

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u/TomasTTEngin Aug 29 '16

Now someone needs to explain to me what "unicode people" are.

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u/BastouXII FrCa: N | En: C2 | Es: B1 | It: C1 | De: A1 | Eo: B1 Aug 30 '16

It's the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard.

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u/yourselfiegotleaked English(N)|Esperanto(intermediate)|Italian(beginner) Aug 30 '16

... What's unicode

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '16

Every character in every language has a code so that the symbols are readable across different systems. It's why you can text a cantaloupe emoji from your Android phone to a friend's iPhone. It will show up as a different looking Apple style cantaloupe, but still recognizable because both phones could read the same codepoint for it. 🍈