On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:46 PM Chris <idou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I personally think emoji should have one, single definitive representation > for this exact reason. >
Then you want an image. I don't see what's hard about that. > The community interested in tony the tiger can make decisions like that. > That is a hell of a handwave. In practice, you've got a complex decision that's always going to be a bit controversial, and one a decision that most communities won't bother trying to make. > You can’t know because they’re images. > You can't know because the only obvious equivalence relation is exact image identity. You can’t iterate over compressed bits. You can’t process them. Why not? In any language I know of that has iterators, there would be no problem writing one that iterates over compressed input. If you need to mutate them, that is hard in compressed formats, but a new CPU can store War in Peace in the on-CPU cache.
