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Your emoji is really just a number
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That laughing-crying face isn't a picture; it's just a soulless numerical assignment. Under the hood, emojis are dictated by the Unicode standard, which assigns a specific alphanumeric value to every character. When you send a smiley, you are just transmitting a basic numerical value. The receiving device reads that number and renders its own localized illustration of the emotion.
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