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2026-02-22 11:41 UTC

@Gyroplast @emmatyping Hmm, I wonder how that works? Maybe it transcribes the emojis to text and the one that appears first in the alphabetical order is deemed the greater one? So, Apple > Orange means A > O and F > W ? That's some weird behaviour right here haha

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  • @Gyroplast@furry.engineer 2026-02-22 12:05

    @helloyanis @emmatyping How does '🦊' > '🐺' == True make sense? Computers are narrow-minded, and do numbers only. Humans don't like numbers much, and wrote all the letters and glyphs they wanted to use with computers on a huge list, and gave every letter a unique number, and called that a "Unicode codepoint" to sound really smart. The codepoint of FOX FACE (🦊) is 129418, and the codepoint of WOLF FACE (🐺) is 128058. If I'm asking the lightning-infused rock to compare two single characters, which both emojis really are, it will first implicitly look up their respective codepoints, and compare those numbers. 129418 > 128058 is patently true. Æons ago, with ASCII, people did a lot of clever things with those "codepoints", like switching between upper and lower case by flipping a single bit of a character, until this broke hilariously with umlauts and their ilk. "Don't bit-bang or numerically work with ASCII!" is the cautionary tale.

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