> Unicode was designed to provide code-point-by-code-point round-trip format conversion to and from any preexisting character encodings, so that text files in o

> Unicode was designed to provide code-point-by-code-point round-trip format conversion to and from any preexisting character encodings, so that text files in older character sets can be converted to Unicode and then back and get back the same file, without employing context-dependent interpretation [1] The problem is that emoji are part of a major text-encoding format, so unicode needs to adopt those. Once those were added, everyone and their mother suddenly wanted their emoji in unicode as well. > It feels like extra complexity for no benefit other than, "we need a standard". That sums up the whole standard for better and for worse. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Mapping_to_legacy_character_sets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Mapping_to_legacy_char...