Arguably it might be better to include a limited, space-optimized vector image format (something like HVIF, Haiku Vector Icon Format[0]) along with text rather

Arguably it might be better to include a limited, space-optimized vector image format (something like HVIF, Haiku Vector Icon Format[0]) along with text rather than try to enumerate emoji, although there are also advantages to the current approach (smaller size for supported characters and meaning indpendent of representation). For the web there is already data: url and similar inline image options would be possible in many situations even without the basic text format including images. [0] https://blog.leahhanson.us/post/recursecenter2016/haiku_icons.html https://blog.leahhanson.us/post/recursecenter2016/haiku_icon...