> why the Unicode consortium thought that putting emojis in a character set would be a good idea. That puts blame on the wrong organisation. The consortium is

> why the Unicode consortium thought that putting emojis in a character set would be a good idea. That puts blame on the wrong organisation. The consortium is to the most part only standardising existing character repertoires. Emojis were popularised by a mobile phone equipment manufacturer as a marketing stunt. http://enwp.org/Emoji#History http://enwp.org/Emoji#History