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@ananaszjoe the difference is that emojis are for Facebook addicted kiddies while you can buy real shit for EUR. Also, even in academia, people usually prefer getting EUR over getting emojis every month.
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@ananaszjoe since you don't seem to get it: LaTeX is most widespread in tech academia. While you sometimes do need EUR in scientific papers (e.g. when comparing cost efficiency of different solutions), you just never need emojis.
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@Fast-Nop Emoji was not my point but please tell me more.
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@Fast-Nop My point was that it's a tough problem. The emoji part is a sidenote. I'm glad we're mutually amusing each other ;)
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@ananaszjoe Of course there are. But that doesn't change the fact that just about any other software out there is capable of handling any utf8 character, as long as the font contains a corresponding glyph, while LaTeX, the tool made specifically to aid with writing complex papers at academic levels, can't do that without at best importing another X packages.
Found this in our codebase, apparently one of my co-workers had written this
So apparently using utf8 with LaTeX isn't enough to get € symbol working, I have to include two more packages for that (two, because one handles the character, and the other one makes it look "not weird"). How hard can it be to just use a single utf8 font, and have it work with whatever utf8 character you type in? And apparently there are at least 3 packages specifically for euro symbol - a certain XKCD comic comes to mind...
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