14 DAY TRIAL // The way emojis look might not sound like such a big deal, but they can really make an app more successful just because they have a more appealing design.
Microsoft itself tried to revamp the emoji lineup in Windows 10, and the company introduced some new emoticons, including one that flips the middle finger. Additionally, it also rolled out some visual changes for the existing ones, including the poop emoticon.
If you've already used the poop emoji on other devices, the first thing that might catch your attention when looking at the Windows 10 version is that it doesn't smile. Apple's poop emoticon smiles, Twitter's does it too, but Microsoft's sticks to a straight face.
In fact, Microsoft's poop emoticon doesn't even have a face, and in a tweet today Microsoft Edge browser engineer Jacob Rossi explains why.
Sticking to Unicode standards
Unicode is the industry standard that all technology companies are using, allowing us, the users, to see these emojis on our computer. Although firms are allowed to choose the look of the emojis used on their systems, Unicode doesn't say anything about happy faces or things like that.
Actually, Unicode says the poop emoticon is “a pile of feces,” as BI writes.
So Microsoft's poop emoticon has no face because the company simply wanted to stick to the default definition and nothing more.
“We left the smile out because the Unicode description does not indicate that this code point represents lucky golden poop. Incidentally, we also explored versions with flies around and Steam vapors, but in the end decided to keep our interpretation literal and true to the Unicode description, as we tried to do with all the characters.”
So here you are, the Microsoft poop emoticon has no flies and happy face because the company simply likes it the classic way. In the meantime, there are plenty of happy poops out there if you have the guts to search Google for such a thing.
@wanderview @jaffathecake @dstorey @sgalineau (redacted bits are just personally identifiable stuff) pic.twitter.com/aenqSWkN63
— Jacob Rossi (@jacobrossi) August 21, 2015