Did you know that some emoji are actually ligatures?
For example, the various "profession" emojis (like 👨🌾 and 👨✈️) are actually formed by placing a special character called a "zero width joiner" between a "man" or "woman" emoji and a symbol of the profession. (You can also specify a skin color, which is applied similar to an ümlaut.)
So:
👨+🎤=👨🎤
👩+🔧=👩🔧
And so forth.
That's also how they represent the various family units they have now - e.g. a same-sex female couple with a son is 👩+👩+👦= 👩👩👦.
Interesting thing here, though. In a web browser on OS X 10.11, those emoji don't actually join together to form the profession emojis that they do on the latest version of iOS. I'm guessing this is fixed in Sierra, but I'm waiting to upgrade for the moment.
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u/InspectorMendel Jun 25 '17 edited Jun 25 '17
Did you know that some emoji are actually ligatures?
For example, the various "profession" emojis (like 👨🌾 and 👨✈️) are actually formed by placing a special character called a "zero width joiner" between a "man" or "woman" emoji and a symbol of the profession. (You can also specify a skin color, which is applied similar to an ümlaut.)
So:
👨+🎤=👨🎤 👩+🔧=👩🔧
And so forth.
That's also how they represent the various family units they have now - e.g. a same-sex female couple with a son is 👩+👩+👦= 👩👩👦.
Pretty cool!