In 2010, a single misplaced character in Apple's emoji keyboard nearly caused an international incident between Japan and South Korea. We dive into the surprisingly political world of Unicode, where deciding whether a face is 'slightly smiling' or 'grimacing' requires actual committee votes, and how a group of mostly-volunteer linguists accidentally became the arbiters of global digital communication. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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