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> Unicode support in my experience seems to be one of those hand wavy things where most people respond to the question of “Do you support unicode?” with > >
by sdflhasjd 6y ago
> Unicode support in my experience seems to be one of those hand wavy things where most people respond to the question of “Do you support unicode?” with
> > Yeah we support emojis, so yes we support unicode!
And sometimes it's not even that simple, because things that say they support UTF-8 can't encode the full range.
Looking at you, MySQL and "utf8mb3"
- doubleunplussed 6y agoEmoji have been a boon for unicode support. In order to support emoji, a lot of software ends up supporting unicode in general. I think I read that this was intentional by the unicode consortium - it is arguable that emoji don't belong in unicode, but is included to enhance adoption.
- sdflhasjd 6y agoUnfortunately, I think control of the Emoji code blocks by the Unicode Consortium stifles its potential.
- tom_mellior 6y agoCould you elaborate?
- sdflhasjd 6y agoIt has more limited usefulness outiside of North America and Japan when it comes to cultural or geographically limited characters, especially food, drink and clothing; The Consortium does recognise this, but with a measly 50+100 new emoji per year, it will be forever before we see this improved significantly.
- microtherion 6y agoWithout that control, you would be free to call custom emoji from the vasty deep, but without vendor support, that would not do you much good. I find it preferable to have a limited pipeline of additions, but with considerable vendor support.