On 2/15/2018 11:54 PM, James Kass via
Unicode wrote:
Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:But it's always a good time to argue against the addition of more nonsense to what we already have got.It's an open-ended set and precedent for encoding them exists. Generally, input regarding the addition of characters to a repertoire is solicited from the user community, of which I am not a member.My personal feeling is that all of the time, effort, and money spent by the various corporations in promoting the emoji into Unicode would have been better directed towards something more worthwhile, such as the unencoded scripts listed at: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/scripts-not-encoded.html ... but nobody asked me. Curiously enough it is the emoji that keep a
large number of users (and companies Few, if any, of the not-yet-encoded scripts
are used by large living populations, Emoji are definitely up-ending that dynamic, which I would argue is a good thing. A financially well endowed Consortium with
strong membership is a prerequisite The University of Berkeley people would be
the first to tell you how their funding A./
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