On 9/22/18 4:52 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I was laughing out loud when reading about composing "family"
emojis with zero-width joiners. If you told me that was a tech
parody, I'd have believed it.
Honestly, I was horrified to find out that emojis were even in Unicode. It
makes no sense whatsover. Emojis are supposed to be sequences of characters
that can be interepreted as images. Treating them like Unicode symbols is
like treating entire words like Unicode symbols. It's just plain stupid and
a clear sign that Unicode has gone completely off the rails (if it was ever
on them). Unfortunately, it's the best tool that we have for the job.
But aren't some (many?) Chinese/Japanese characters representing whole
words?
-Steve
