> Unicode didn't start out as an encoding covering human scripts > It started out as an encoding to end all already existing encodings And those other encodin

> Unicode didn't start out as an encoding covering human scripts > It started out as an encoding to end all already existing encodings And those other encodings were encodings for a variety of human scripts. Re: emojis, well, they're not that different from Kanjis, not really -- both are pictographs after all, one just has much more modern functionality (e.g., color).