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If you think of Unicode as a standard that enables the ease of exchange of textual data among parties, would that change your mind? People have been putting emo
by spacehunt 10y ago
If you think of Unicode as a standard that enables the ease of exchange of textual data among parties, would that change your mind? People have been putting emojis alongside text (think SMS) long before Unicode put them into the standard at the request of Google and Apple.
- pron 10y agoPeople have been putting images alongside text since the invention of print. That still doesn't make the images text. So it's really great that for a few years now some people are embedding icons in their SMS messages, but I think that incorporating those fashionable 2-5-year-old icons into a standard that's mostly about standardizing hundreds-of-years-old text doesn't make much sense. You can exchange text with embedded icons just as easily without requiring OS vendors to come up with their own versions of vaguely-defined pictures by... simply embedding pictures. I can already see the people on whatever would be the HN 20 years from now complaining how "bloated" Unicode is, full of thousands of symbols that no one ever uses, and calling to replace the whole thing, costing the industry even more money to replace a standard yet again.