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Re:Unicode in five minutes (2013) by Dylan16807 on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:32PM (#24164857)
Well right now it's about two percent of unicode, right?

And people use them as text, so there's a reason to add them and not much reason to refuse them.

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Re:Unicode in five minutes (2013) by mysterypie on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:48PM (#24164952)
You might be right, but where are you getting the 2% from? Are you thinking of just emoticons, emojis, playing card symbols, and snowmen? There's more than that I'd question.
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Re:Unicode in five minutes (2013) by Dylan16807 on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:39PM (#24165423)
I looked up how many emoji there were, added some for wingdings, and rounded up a bit.

What else would you question? Would it be more than 1500 more, which would bump it from 2 to 3 percent?

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