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I believe it's an issue with time resources. I would argue that new emoji characters are one of the less important uses of Unicode [1]. You are right that it is

I believe it's an issue with time resources. I would argue that new emoji characters are one of the less important uses of Unicode [1]. You are right that it is entirely up to the members of the Unicode consortium to manage their efforts themselves, but that doesn't mean we can't complain about that. I see a lot of these cases as bikeshedding [1]https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of...

pedasmith 10y ago
People aren't fungible and there's no special set of people who have been specially blessed to decide what's important all-up. Each area of Unicode is handled by a different set of people who are experts in different areas. If a number of people who use language "a" know that Unicode isn't handling their language, some of them need to step up and provide a solution. Part of that stepping up might be as easy as complaining about the problems they are running into :-), but eventually for a solution to emerge, some set of people need to step forward and handle the Unicode research and paperwork.