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Not different from the fact that we have useless CC0/CC1 characters somewhere in Unicode. As long as bearable (i.e. not too many), having rare characters is oka
by lifthrasiir 3y ago
Not different from the fact that we have useless CC0/CC1 characters somewhere in Unicode. As long as bearable (i.e. not too many), having rare characters is okay.
- masklinn 3y agoEmojis are also great from a technical standpoint: because they are desirable to users the unicode consortium can (and has) leverage them to encourage text rendering engines to properly implement features necessary for various languages e.g. astral codepoints, ligatures, grapheme clusters, ...
- gumby 3y agoThey aren’t useless because they support file idempotency. Let’s say “important while almost entirely useless” and call it a day?