Open standards platform cooperation and unicode URL support for emoji domains
Open standards platform cooperation and unicode URL support for emoji domains
The Issue
We brought Steve Jobs back to life to mature a discussion around open standards support for emoji domains and hope to work with your team(s) until these things are feature complete.
Unicode engineering at Linkedin
1000 W. Maude Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Unicode engineering at Meta
1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, CA 94025
The Unicode Consortium
611 Gateway Blvd.
Suite 120
South San Francisco, CA 94080
USA
+1-408-401-8915
Jill Roig
(480) 508-2280
jillroig@domainresearchgroup.net
Unicode 15.0.0 core specification, last updated September 13, 2022
https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/
Dear LinkedIn, Meta, Product Hunt, Github, Discord and other ecosystems dedicated to advancing human progress and platform cooperation.
We are writing to express our disappointment and concern about the lack of support for URLs containing emojis on your platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn for posting and messaging support.
As you may be aware, Twitter and Apple Messages app have full support for URLs containing emojis and have for some time.
However, it has come to our attention that Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn do not offer this same level of support for open standards.
This means that users cannot include emojis in URLs when sharing content on these platforms, which limits their ability to design calls to action without creating non-emoji versions of each URL.
As a long time developer for Unicode and on behalf of roses/foundation, we strongly urge LinkedIn and Meta to address this issue by offering full support for URLs containing emojis on your platforms. We believe that the inclusion of emojis in URLs can greatly enhance the user experience, encourage more engagement, and improve the overall functionality of your platforms.
We understand that implementing this feature may require some technical adjustments, but we are confident that your team can find a way to make this happen. In the meantime, we have started a petition on change.org on behalf of roses/foundation and Unicode, calling for those with marketplace dominance like LinkedIn and Meta to take action on this issue.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, and we look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Sincerely,
Michael Darius
https://roses.foundation
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force:
https://www.ietf.org
For more information about the history of emoji domains:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain
The Issue
We brought Steve Jobs back to life to mature a discussion around open standards support for emoji domains and hope to work with your team(s) until these things are feature complete.
Unicode engineering at Linkedin
1000 W. Maude Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Unicode engineering at Meta
1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, CA 94025
The Unicode Consortium
611 Gateway Blvd.
Suite 120
South San Francisco, CA 94080
USA
+1-408-401-8915
Jill Roig
(480) 508-2280
jillroig@domainresearchgroup.net
Unicode 15.0.0 core specification, last updated September 13, 2022
https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/
Dear LinkedIn, Meta, Product Hunt, Github, Discord and other ecosystems dedicated to advancing human progress and platform cooperation.
We are writing to express our disappointment and concern about the lack of support for URLs containing emojis on your platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn for posting and messaging support.
As you may be aware, Twitter and Apple Messages app have full support for URLs containing emojis and have for some time.
However, it has come to our attention that Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn do not offer this same level of support for open standards.
This means that users cannot include emojis in URLs when sharing content on these platforms, which limits their ability to design calls to action without creating non-emoji versions of each URL.
As a long time developer for Unicode and on behalf of roses/foundation, we strongly urge LinkedIn and Meta to address this issue by offering full support for URLs containing emojis on your platforms. We believe that the inclusion of emojis in URLs can greatly enhance the user experience, encourage more engagement, and improve the overall functionality of your platforms.
We understand that implementing this feature may require some technical adjustments, but we are confident that your team can find a way to make this happen. In the meantime, we have started a petition on change.org on behalf of roses/foundation and Unicode, calling for those with marketplace dominance like LinkedIn and Meta to take action on this issue.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, and we look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Sincerely,
Michael Darius
https://roses.foundation
IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force:
https://www.ietf.org
For more information about the history of emoji domains:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji_domain
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Petition created on February 19, 2023