Emoji are not any more complex than some natural languages that people need to encode in Unicode. It's a weird, more modern "language" than most, but it's a sti

Emoji are not any more complex than some natural languages that people need to encode in Unicode. It's a weird, more modern "language" than most, but it's a still a human language with human quirks. It's a lovely privilege that English speakers generally don't have any language encoding problems to deal with beyond Emoji, but it's a brilliant bit of Unicode today that Emoji is becoming a required by users common denominator that stress tests incorrect assumptions English speakers want to make about language encoding.