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Why bother with a standard, just deny by default and whitelist the codepoints you care about. Plenty of software already does that-- HN itself doesn't allow em
by sbierwagen 4y ago
Why bother with a standard, just deny by default and whitelist the codepoints you care about.
Plenty of software already does that-- HN itself doesn't allow emoji, for example.
- rom-antics 4y agoI don't think HN is deny by default. Most emojis are stripped, but some still get through. I don't know why 🆔 would be whitelisted
- zerocrates 4y agoIs it just that whole block that's allowed? I feel like some of the legacy characters that have been kind of "promoted" to emoji I've seen allowed here. Let's see, is the all-important 🆗 allowed?
- GuB-42 4y agoThe point of having a standard is to know which ones to deny. Make a study over a wide range of documents about the characters that are used the most, see if there are alternatives to the characters that don't make it, etc... This is unlike the HN ban on emoji, which I think is more of a political decision than a technical one. Most people on HN use systems that can read emoji just fine, but they decided that the site would be better without it. This would be more technical, a way to balance inclusivity and technical constraints, something between ASCII and full Unicode.