<Maxane> But then again, rather not ;-p <Kawa> NOSES ARE A WASTE OF BANDWIDTH
So yeah. That’s me referencing some old IRC thing moments before I decided to write this post, but it got me thinking. There’s the joke that adding a nose to your classic :) smileys is a waste of bandwidth, but how does it stack up against modern emoji?
This is just a short observation, mind you. Done in minutes.
| Display | Characters | UTF8 bytes |
|---|---|---|
:) |
2 | 3A 29 |
:-) |
3 | 3A 2D 29 |
| 🙂 | 1* | F0 9F 99 82 |
There’s really not much to it, innit?
* depending on how you define ’em.
