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Basic Multilingual Plane?
by kozak 10y ago
Basic Multilingual Plane?
- nabla9 10y agoYes, basically. I think we want to have normalization and other simplifications and restrictions to processing. What I have in mind is restricted standard subset bundle that makes it possible to send text that ends looking right in every device in the future. Imagine that you are developing wristband device and you can buy ASIC or FPGA chip module that eats grapheme clusters and spits out bitmap for the right glyph every time.
- gpderetta 10y agoEmoji are not in the BMP. Whether they are essential or not I'll leave it to you :)
- coldtea 10y agoWell, they're not essential either. In fact up to less than 5 years ago, there weren't anywhere except in some phones (and mostly Japanese phones at that).
- userbinator 10y agoWhether unintentionally or not, you've just illustrated why emoji aren't truly essential. But some characters not in the BMP I would consider very essential, like the various Asian characters that didn't fit into the BMP.