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I hear you. If you want pictures then use a markup language. Unfortunately it is too late now. We finally had an almost universally supported character set, and
by Ruud-v-A 10y ago
I hear you. If you want pictures then use a markup language. Unfortunately it is too late now. We finally had an almost universally supported character set, and then we ruined it with levitating men in business suits. Recent Unicode versions introduce far more technical challenges than they solve. For instance, now that code points can come with colour, there are conflicting requirements between the requested text colour and the intrinsic colour of a symbol.
- slapresta 10y agoThis is about icon fonts and font rendering and has nothing to do with Unicode. Code points don't have colour; there's no colour requirements anywhere in the spec. Your fonts don't have to support the entirety of Unicode. That's why we have font stacks and fallbacks.
- anonymfus 10y agoExcept skin colours which are now modifiers.
- Ruud-v-A 10y agoU+1F499 BLUE HEART U+1F49A GREEN HEART U+1F49B YELLOW HEART U+1F49C PURPLE HEART U+1F53D DOWN-POINTING SMALL RED TRIANGLE U+1F536 LARGE ORANGE DIAMOND U+1F537 LARGE BLUE DIAMOND ...
- slapresta 10y agoThat doesn't directly translate to a color requirement in the font, though.