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in thread Larger profile pic than 80KB?

Modern Christmas trees emerged in western Germany during the 16th century as Christians brought trees into their homes and decorated them with gingerbread, nuts and apples

-- from The History of the Christmas Tree

LanX, given your location, I've created a new and improved Unicode emoji for you, celebrating your annual ritual of eating of gingerbread, nuts and apples under the Christmas tree:

🖧 🫚🌰🍎😋🎄

While I appreciate you wear Lederhosen on such occasions, I couldn't find an emoji for that.

👁️🍾👍🦟

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Re^6: Larger profile pic than 80KB?
by LanX (Saint) on Oct 26, 2023 at 17:57 UTC
    > you wear Lederhosen on such occasions

    Even worse, because of my mixed heritage I always start the day dancing Dabke in Lederhosen :)

    Anyway thank you so much, gingerbread, nuts and apples spiced with hot candle wax and spruce needles are among my favorites in German cuisine :)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

Re^6: Larger profile pic than 80KB?
by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 26, 2023 at 22:02 UTC

    That third emoji is very new. I just see (rough ASCII-art rendition):

    +---+
    |01F|
    |ADA|
    +---+
    

    It's U+01FADA GINGER ROOT and part of the Unicode v15.0 release (the latest is v15.1). I have the latest Firefox running on the latest Win10 (I just updated everything) so I'm guessing I simply don't have an appropriate font. I imagine others are in the same boat.

    There are minimal details in the Unicode PDF Code Chart "Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A - Range: 1FA70-1FAFF".

    Perl can provide information on all properties with:

    $ perl -E ' use Unicode::UCD "charprops_all"; use Data::Dump; dd charprops_all("U+01FADA"); '

    Perl v5.38.0 added support for Unicode v15.0 (see "perl5380delta: Unicode 15.0 is supported"). Those who haven't upgraded to v5.38.0 yet, won't be able to use the code above. Here's a few selected lines of the output:

    { Age => "V15_0", ... Block => "Symbols_And_Pictographs_Extended_A" +, ... Emoji_Presentation => "Yes", ... Name => "GINGER ROOT", ... }

    The full output takes up a couple of screenfuls on my 27" monitor. I've put it in the spoiler for anyone interested.

    — Ken

      For me it's the first emoji for LAN which doesn't display.

      Anyway, if we really want to reinvent Chinese with emoji hieroglyphs, than I'd rather go for 🛹🏘️ or 🫁

      "Long" explanation

      My rather long (sic) family name Langsdorf translates to long-s-village (sic-sic) or more directly "long-s-thorp"

      German tends to introduce "s" as a connector in compound words (compare Saint PeterSburg°).

      Hence the first half ends on "GS" which is almost homophone to "X", and capital X was stylish in the age of LaTeX and Linux and Unix.

      So LanX is pronounced like "lungs" with an "angry voice" aka standard German accent.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      °) Tsar Peter (the Great) wanted to attach his empire closer to Europe, so he chose a German name for his new capital. Most cities on the Baltic sea where heavily Hanseatic anyway. The Russian version is "Sankt-Peterburg" (Санкт-Петербургъ) without s.

        It's interesting what is and isn't displayed across applications. Here's the two lots of characters:

        $ perl -E '
            use utf8;
            use Unicode::UCD "charinfo";
            for my $code_point (map ord, qw{🖧 ❎ 🫚 🌰 🍎 😋 🎄 🛹 🏘️ 🫁}) {
                say "U+", sprintf("%X\t", $code_point),
                    charinfo($code_point)->{name};
            }
        '
        U+1F5A7 THREE NETWORKED COMPUTERS
        U+274E  NEGATIVE SQUARED CROSS MARK
        U+1FADA GINGER ROOT
        U+1F330 CHESTNUT
        U+1F34E RED APPLE
        U+1F60B FACE SAVOURING DELICIOUS FOOD
        U+1F384 CHRISTMAS TREE
        U+1F6F9 SKATEBOARD
        U+1F3D8 HOUSE BUILDINGS
        U+1FAC1 LUNGS
        

        Update: A missing space between GINGER ROOT and CHESTNUT in the for list resulted in CHESTNUT not appearing in the output. I've fixed this.

        I said characters, instead of emoji, because the one you can't see isn't an emoji. Also, as it was released with Unicode v7.0, I'm a little surprised you don't have a font to render it.

        $ perl -E ' use Unicode::UCD "charprop"; say "$_:\t", charprop("U+1F5A7", $_) for qw{Age Name Emoji}; ' Age: V7_0 Name: THREE NETWORKED COMPUTERS Emoji: No

        I understand how THREE NETWORKED COMPUTERS, as a LAN, fits with your username. You've explained about LUNGS. I'm baffled by SKATEBOARD and HOUSE BUILDINGS.

        All of those characters (except GINGER ROOT, as described above) are rendered for me by Firefox.

        The characters GINGER ROOT and LUNGS are not rendered in my Cygwin CLI; they appear as a question mark inside a square. Perl (I'm using v5.39.3) obviously understands both. When I copy-paste that code into this response, LUNGS is rendered correctly.

        Cygwin was also updated to the latest; at the same time that I updated Firefox, Thunderbird and Win10 earlier today. I would have thought that it could access the same fonts as the others.

        As I said, interesting how different applications deal with some of these characters.

        — Ken