One point one million code points should be plenty. How many tiny icons could anybody really ask for?
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I mean at some point we will have all the tiny icons, and people will stop asking for more, I assume
If only there was some way to combine a relatively small number of code points to express arbitrarily complicated thoughts and feelings
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Basically my concern is that the "Emoji ad-hoc subcommittee" has bitten off more than it can chew, as detailed here: http://babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/whats-new-in-unicode-80.html …
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@qntm Yeah, but as@Spolsky noted sarcastically, (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html …) there's all this extra space, and we should do something with it. - 2 more replies
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@qntm honestly even though its flawed, 1 standard that covers visual representation of the vast majority of human communication is amazing -
@factormystic When people say everything in computers is irredeemably terrible I have to call an exception for Unicode - 1 more reply
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@qntm so, just put bmp + supplementary plane glyphs (for cjk) in qntms_font.ttf & delete all other fonts from your systemThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@qntm i guess i meant "supplementary ideographic" plane, not the one with emoji, w/eThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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