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The smiley’s ability to be both innocent and well-meaning and ambiguous and hip all at the same time can be seen in its very beginnings. Note: Emojipedia is a voting member of the Unicode Consortium. Companies such as Apple and Google are full members with one vote each, while Emojipedia is a supporting member with a half vote. I represent Emojipedia at Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) meetings, but don't speak on behalf of any vendors, nor Unicode itself. ↩︎

In May 1972, Mad magazine got in on the act when it published a smiley-themed cover – with Alfred E Neuman's inimitable face contained within a yellow disc. It was over in France in the same year, however, that journalist Franklin Loufrani became the first person to register the icon for commercial use.Until recently, Scotland was not eligible for its own emoji flag, at least in the way Unicode encodes flags. Yellow graphical smileys have been used for many different purposes, including use in early 1980s video games. Yahoo! Messenger (from 1998) used smiley symbols in the user list next to each user, and also as an icon for the application. In November 2001, and later, smiley emojis inside the actual chat text was adopted by several chat systems, including Yahoo Messenger. The very first ASCII emoticons — :- ) and :- ( — actually originated in the ’80s, when computer scientist Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University suggested that the symbols be used to contextualize messages posted on a digital message board. If you put it in a nursery setting ... it fits in well. If you take it and put it on a riot policeman’s gas mask, then it becomes something completely different.” Smith v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. - 537 FSupp2d 1302 - March 20, 2008 - https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/14555

Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Smiley Face (disambiguation)and Happy face (disambiguation). If Watchmen helped to establish the smiley as an ironic icon with a contemporary audience, it did so as part of a tradition that recalls the sign's use in Vietnam and by bands such as Talking Heads, who featured a sinister-looking smiley on the Taxi Driver-inspired cover of their 1977 12" single, Psycho Killer.Artist files lawsuit after claiming he came up with Nirvana's 'smily face' logo". NME. 25 September 2020. The smiley has now become synonymous with culture across the world. It is used for communication, imagery, branding and for topical purposes to display a range of emotions. Beginning in the 1960s, a yellow happy face was used by numerous brands in print to demonstrate happiness. Chequered Flag is the easiest of the flags. It happens to look like a flag, but isn't encoded any differently to a 📻 Radio or 🎺 Trumpet. a b c Doug Lennox, illustrated by Catriona Wight (2004), Now You Know More: The Book of Answers, vol.2 (illustrateded.), Dundurn, p.50, ISBN 9781550025309

Due to the way these codes were implemented, sets of three or more Regional Indicator characters aren't feasible, as text rendering engines will match any two with an emoji first (eg if XSD were used for South Dakota, text engines would render the XS as a Scottish flag first, and be left with the D hanging at the end)

Ethridge, Mark. “Several Firms Claim to Be Originators of Smile Button.” Nashua Telegraph. September 9, 1971. https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-09-1971-3502894/ WhatsApp previously invented its own pairs of regional indicators for a few flags including Scotland (XS) and Texas (XT). These were used to display regions that weren't covered by ISO 3166-1 (the "X" at the front indicated these aren't part of the standard set). [2]