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Noses are a waste of bandwidth

<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.

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