CRISIS AVERTED: Japan Standardizes Its Emoji
There’s been a storm brewing in Japan—emoji, the ubiquitous text-based faces that dominate Japanese mobile communications, have been getting mistranslated between carriers. You send a picture of a bull, they get a picture of a cow, AND PEOPLE START DYING. So three of the largest Japanese cell carriers, Docomo, KDDI, and eAccess, have announced that…
