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by x3al 3909 days ago
>What about non-alphabetic written languages?

Some English words can already be writen without using the alphabet. For example, '2015'. I believe numerals in English are used exactly as emoji (or Chinese characters) in Japanese now: embedded inside the sentences, which are composed according to the grammar of language.

>The input difficulties of emoji today seems temporary.

It depends on language, in Japanese input methods a lot of emoji can be written exactly the same way you write rest words.
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aninhumer 3909 days ago
As an example of the latter, the default first suggestion in my Japanese IME for "ha-to" is "" rather than "γƒγƒΌγƒˆ".

EDIT: The symbol appears to have been stripped, but it was the unicode heart.

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bdchauvette 3909 days ago
> It depends on language, in Japanese input methods a lot of emoji can be written exactly the same way you write rest words.

The SwiftKey keyboard on Android offers this feature. If you turn it on and type 'angry', for example, it offers both the word and the emoji as predictions.

It works pretty well for English, but I'm not sure how well it works for other languages SwiftKey supports.

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