On Apr 2, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Asmus Freytag <asm...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On 4/2/2014 1:42 AM, Christopher Fynn wrote: >> Rather than Emoji it might be better if people learnt Han ideographs >> which are also compact (and a far more developed system of >> communication than emoji). One CJK character can also easily replace >> dozens of Latin characters - which is what is being claimed for emoji. > > One wonders why the Japanese, who already know Han ideographs, took to emoji > as they did.... All the ancient emoji characters we inherited from our ancestors were already turned into Han ideographs like this[1][2], so we needed new ones to add more Han ideographs in next centuries ;) [1] http://ameblo.jp/happy2525tkg/entry-11541848940.html [2] http://ameblo.jp/happy2525tkg/entry-11578197418.html /koji _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
