One point one million code points should be plenty. How many tiny icons could anybody really ask for?
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If only there was some way to combine a relatively small number of code points to express arbitrarily complicated thoughts and feelings
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. -
perhaps the extra space could be used for human languages https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name …
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@qntm How about one code point means "here be sprites" and we follow that with codepoints that are to be interpreted as rows of tiny bitmapsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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