I hope not, because not all terminals support unicode, not all applications do, etc. Also, as the author mentioned, it is hard for the layman to understand how

I hope not, because not all terminals support unicode, not all applications do, etc. Also, as the author mentioned, it is hard for the layman to understand how to pronounce it. Why they did not name it "thrangrycat", I do not know. All though, that almost seems worse than the emoticon option.