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Emoji was originally added because of Unicode's mission. It wasn't some rando who thought, "we should put a smiley face emoji". It was because Japanese phones u

Emoji was originally added because of Unicode's mission. It wasn't some rando who thought, "we should put a smiley face emoji". It was because Japanese phones used JIS encodings that had them in it.

temac 5y ago
More have been added since. Unicode has even become synonymous to emojis in general or even tech "enthousiast" media
- dpark 5y ago
  Who cares? In what way does it matter if lay people think Unicode is about emojis?