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It's because its creators were well aware of the shortcomings of the previous half-solutions and wanted to future-proof the standard.
by dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
It's because its creators were well aware of the shortcomings of the previous half-solutions and wanted to future-proof the standard.
- hathawsh 7y agoI can't help but wonder how they concluded that they should add arbitrary emojis to Unicode. Are emojis the future of language?
- gnulinux 7y agoIf not text, what even emojis are? How is a smiley face any different than "!" or "?" it carries a meaning in the text itself. As a programmer, I want my user to type text including emojis so I can store it as string, not a messy mix of string and images.