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> Nor is Pile of Poo I really really don't understand this point. We have evidence that people use pile of poo in plaintext today in instant messaging all the
by gnulinux 7y ago
> Nor is Pile of Poo
I really really don't understand this point. We have evidence that people use pile of poo in plaintext today in instant messaging all the time. Isn't this enough evidence that pile of poo belongs to plaintext? I'm not trying to be facetious; it's really puzzling to me. Since every single comment in this thread is about pile of poo, whereas it seems to me the worst possible example since it's such a widely used emoji.
- recursive 7y agoIt's only possible to use it in a text message because it's a unicode character. If external link was a character, would people use it? I don't know. Do you?
- gnulinux 7y agoMaybe, maybe not, we don't know. What I know is that even my mom and grandma use pile of poo on facebook. Will they use "external link" symbol? I would guess not, but maybe.
- recursive 7y ago> Will they use "external link" symbol? I would guess not. In that way, it would be no different from 99% of unicode characters then.
- gnulinux 7y agoExactly, my point is pile of poo is such a bad example since recently it's probably in 1%-th percentile of most used unicode symbols in plaintext. It's similar to arguing something like ∆ or é does not belong to unicode.
- cabalamat 7y agoI personally would use it. I'm sure others would too.