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Getting back into that game dev saddle.

Demo successfully shows that *this* *was easy* *for everyone*.

#McCLIM #gui #unicode character world adventure for a
> (unget:unsy '(smiling cat))
😸
"😸"
|#x1F638|
#\GRINNING_CAT_FACE_WITH_SMILING_EYES

https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/891545/gui-table-of-unicode-common-lisp-interface-manager-cat-adventure

I became tired while writing the codes so it's a story told through pictures and a video clip of #emacs.

Encourage me to write it up later. https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/lispmoo2/devlog/891545/gui-table-of-unicode-common-lisp-interface-manager-cat-adventure

All three of these involve walking through a sequence of steps:

bytes -> characters -> rendering -> reading

...with all but the last step occurring in the computers.

In the case of emoticons, the bytes become pictures at the reading stage. : does not represent eyes and is rendered as a colon character, - does not represent a nose and is rendered as a hyphen-minus character, and ) does not represent a mouth and is rendered as a close-parenthesis characer ... but in the eyes of the reader, :-) registers clearly as a smiling face.

In the case of smileys, the bytes become pictures at the rendering stage. Again, none of the *characters* represent pictures, but the computer recognizes a sequence of characters (e.g. :geek: on a phpBB forum) and renders this sequence of characters as an image.

In the case of emoji, the bytes become pictures at the *character* stage. 😸 represents *as a character* a picture of a "Grinning Cat Face With Smiling Eyes", on top of being rendered as a picture (😸) and perceived as a picture by the reader.

...that said, "emoji" as a term has undergone an expansion in meaning, probably through the influence of group chat services like Slack and Discord, and now includes smileys. But that is how I think of the distinction between these three things.

*sets chalk down* Any questions?