On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:16 AM James Kass via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> That's one way of looking at it. Another way would be that the emoji > were definitely outside the scope of the Unicode project as encoding > them violated Unicode's initial encoding principles. > They were characters being interchanged as text in current use. They are more inside the scope than many of the line-drawing characters for 8-bit computers that have been there since day one, and analogous to many of the dingbats that have also been there since day one.