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Nitpicking. Unicode is a blessing. Life before it was endless encoding hell. Who cares about a few smileys. I don't mean it doesn't deserve criticism. Just don

by vardump 11y ago

Nitpicking. Unicode is a blessing. Life before it was endless encoding hell. Who cares about a few smileys. I don't mean it doesn't deserve criticism. Just don't think a few code point allocations matter, especially ones that people actively use. Emojis are probably some of the most popular astral plane code points. Edit: meant to reply kevin_thibedeau. Not deleting it because of the reply.

WorldMaker 11y ago
Oh, I personally am absolutely pro-emoji! It's very much a useful allocation of the astral plane and great to see standardized. I'm just saying that prior to Unicode 6.0 and the addition of the Astral Plane conlangs (constructed languages, ie the fun things created by fantasy and science fiction authors and fans and world builders) were rejected as "out of scope" for Unicode and so far as I know that rejection hasn't been reconsidered since the Astral Plane reopened. They would fit well in a block of their own not far from the emoji sectors. The interesting part here too is that the interests of adding these character sets is closer to the academic world of dead languages than the commercial interests of the tech world and emoji.