On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016, at 01:54, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Good luck with that last one. Even if you could convince the Chinese and >> Japanese to swap to ASCII, I'd like to see you pry the emoji out of the >> young folk's phones. > > This is actually probably the one part of this proposal that *is* > feasible. While encoding emoji as a single character each makes sense > for a culture that already uses thousands of characters; before they > existed the English-speaking software industry already had several > competing "standards" emerging for encoding them as sequences of ASCII > characters.
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