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I'd argue that textile care symbols are part of "written language", just as mathematical symbols or typographical marks for example, which exist in Unicode. Em

• jmole 6y ago
  Agree with you 100% on textile care symbols. Emoji were certainly written language prior to unicode, but their expansion is unquestionably political since there is no well-defined "natural expression" of emoji that don't exist yet. It doesn't help that their standard [0] on what qualifies for inclusion and what doesn't is very poor, especially this: "Already representable. Can the concept be represented by another emoji or sequence, even if the image is not exactly the same?" Let's say I want an emoji for glass of water for example. There is already one for glass of milk: . Well, I could use or or maybe even by itself is good enough, so my proposal would not be accepted. 0 - https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html