Usage of emoji in coding contexts!

[George Pollard via Unicode]

I've seen this codified a little in other repositories, e.g. �� means 'only
a formatting/stylistic change'.


On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 19:18 Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
wrote:

> Very amusing. But interesting how it catches your eye when scanning a list.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode <
> unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>
>> First time I'm seeing this (maybe others have seen this already):
>>
>> https://github.com/wei/pull
>>
>> Emoji being used in commit messages for classifying the nature of the
>> commit – bug fixes, feature additions etc
>>
>> Now *that*'s a nice creative usage of emoji IMO…
>>
>> I see they haven't used them always as the actual emoji characters but
>> sometimes as :coloned-tags: (or what do you call it) but I presume the
>> GitHub system will convert it to the actual characters before
>> displaying…
>>
>> --
>> Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा ������������������������
>>
>>
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