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I'm fine with the fact that there's a standard for pictographs. Just.. why does it have to be Unicode? Why can't it just be its own standard?
by ajkjk 9y ago
I'm fine with the fact that there's a standard for pictographs. Just.. why does it have to be Unicode? Why can't it just be its own standard?
- digi_owl 9y agoBecause the unicode bureaucracy has to legitimize its own existence now that they have encoded the glyphs of every major writing system on the planet.
- 21 9y agoBecause then we're back to square one: how do you store Unicode and Emojicode in the same text file? How do you know which bytes should be interpreted as Unicode and which as the other?
- spc476 9y agoThere are two control codes, SO (shift-out) and SI (shift-in) that can be used for this---SO to switch to another character set, and SI to switch back. So you SO to Emojicode, and SI back to Unicode.
- dragonwriter 9y agoBecause of the “uni” in Unicode.
- gnulinux 9y agoBecause then it is ambigious to represent that standard for pictographs in different operating systems.