Re:Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman
by krapp on Friday November 22, 2019 @05:58PM
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There is no difference between a glyph that displays a letter and a glyph that displays an image, it's an arbitrary matter of the encoding between code points and a font. And as emoji are already part of Unicode, they're just as much "text" as ASCII.
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Re:Postwoman – a free alternative to Postman
by bayindirh on Saturday November 23, 2019 @04:49AM
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That's technically correct but, when working with console and text processing stuff emojis and other multi-byte characters complicate the things sometimes.
My native language also requires unicode characters to type correctly, and they create the same problems hence, I also prefer avoiding these characters.
These are my preferences, I cannot (and should not) stop the progress. However for me, simplicity and practicality is much better than fanciness.
I'd not fight over this stuff if I was contributing to a project which embraces these concepts and play along without any fuss or objection but, I won't use these in my own projects.