Baërd, Elodie (21 February 2022). "Joaillerie: Messika célèbre les 50 ans de Smiley avec le sourire" (in French). Le Figaro.

After rave and grunge had turned the smiley into a symbol of the counter-culture, something new was coming that would affect the way we think about the smiley forever: the internet. This is a clever system that avoids Unicode needing to create a new code point for every country. The United States flag is a sequence of these two characters: This resulted in a de facto standard in the range with lead bytes 0xF5 to 0xF9. [39] KDDI has gone much further than this, and has introduced hundreds more in the space with lead bytes 0xF3 and 0xF4. [40] In popular culture [ edit ]

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Borschel-Dan, Amanda (19 July 2017). "History's 'oldest smile' found on 4,000-year-old pot in Turkey". The Times of Israel . Retrieved 28 July 2017.

The smiley’s ability to be both innocent and well-meaning and ambiguous and hip all at the same time can be seen in its very beginnings. INCLUDED: The flag comes complete with 2 strong brass grommets on the left side of the flag. Double stitched hems on all sides of the flag. Chequered Flag is the easiest of the flags. It happens to look like a flag, but isn't encoded any differently to a 📻 Radio or 🎺 Trumpet. Verdon, Joan (4 March 2022). "Nordstrom And Luxury Brands Help The Smiley Face Celebrate Its 50th Birthday". Forbes.We do a lot, but we also don’t do that much,” Loufrani tells me. “We’re very, very protective of our brand. We try to be creative. We try to avoid having products with just a big yellow face.” To Loufrani, who has, in recent years, expanded the company to create a good news platform to promote charities and social enterprises, the smiley is so much more than that. It’s not simply a logo, it’s a “movement”. It stands for “defiant optimism, positive thinking, empathy, doing good”. As the world simmers in these distinctly un-smiley times – an era marred by pandemic, the war in Ukraine and a looming global recession – Loufrani believes the Smiley Company has a lot to offer us. Smiles may be down – according to the Smiley Company’s very own smile index survey – but, thanks to a declaration by the Smiley Company, 2022 is set to be the “year of smiles”. They’re coming for you, whether you like it or not. Artist files lawsuit after claiming he came up with Nirvana's 'smily face' logo". NME. 25 September 2020.