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A regression to hieroglyphics, a collation and rendering nightmare, a security morass, AND a volley in the culture wars... Unicode is the gift that keeps on gi

• a1369209993 8y ago
  We really need a non-broken universal character set. Is anyone actually working on that?
  • GuB-42 8y ago
    Yes, that's what the Unicode consortium is doing. If you look at https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/ https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/ you will see that emoji is just a small part of it. I know that there is some controversy, in particular regarding han unification, but in practice, Unicode works well enough.
• blueline 8y ago
  >regression how? it's just another way to communicate a thought/feeling/idea.
• 0815test 8y ago
  Why should we blame Unicode for this? Emoji-like features were used for a long time on Internet forums, in SMS-like mobile apps, and even as "dingbats" in printed text. Emojis in Unicode are simply standardizing support for this long-term practice and making it interoperable across systems.