> It really is beyond me why the Unicode consortium thought that putting emojis in a character set would be a good idea. iirc some japanese character sets alre

> It really is beyond me why the Unicode consortium thought that putting emojis in a character set would be a good idea. iirc some japanese character sets already had them (introduced by telecoms for text messaging?), so originally they were included for compatibility [i.e. to fulfill Unicode's goal of being able to encode everything]. then people discovered the emoji keyboard on iphones and it got popular