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> Nobody invented weird nonsense to make your life harder in Unicode The current state of emoji, unfortunately, makes this no longer true. (That being said, it
by morelisp 3y ago
> Nobody invented weird nonsense to make your life harder in Unicode
The current state of emoji, unfortunately, makes this no longer true. (That being said, it's also designed in a way that's mostly ignorable if you don't need it. But only mostly.)
- kaba0 3y agoI don’t think that pictograms are weird nonsense. Symbology always had an important part in human history, and where else would you put it?
- morelisp 3y agoA markup language, or named entities, some length-prefixed blob, just generally something that doesn't require making UAX 29 more difficult. I understand why emoji is as complicated as it is. I don't think it was a good idea to bake that complication into Unicode.
- kaba0 3y agoEmoji is not an additional complexity, it builds on top of the same primitives like Chinese characters and whatnot. Unless you claim supporting non-european languages is unnecessary, then emojis are a perfectly good “making use of” of unused regions.
- morelisp 3y ago> Emoji... builds on top of the same primitives like Chinese characters It does not, and if you think it does it's obvious you didn't read UAX 29. GB11 is the most complex rule and only applies to emoji (well, and other Extended_Pictographics if you don't want to call the legacy pictographics emoji, but no Chinese).