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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by eternityforest on Monday September 19, 2022 @04:24PM (#32903432)
But that doesn't change the fact that most people use them snd like them, and there is not much technical disruption. They just chose practicality over purity.
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by bawolff on Monday September 19, 2022 @07:32PM (#32905595)
Not only that - people use them in textual communication the way letters traditionally are used. There is probably a lot better argument for emoiji than a lot of other things in unicode (but it is a slippery slope)
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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by yakireev on Monday September 19, 2022 @04:50PM (#32903789)
Most people (me included) like funny cat videos and send funny cat videos. Shall we include some to Unicode?

I mean, this ship has long sailed, but that was a mistake nevertheless. Not everything has to be a unicode character.

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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by kadoban on Monday September 19, 2022 @08:19PM (#32905967)
If there were specific funny cat videos that were culturally relevent, maybe.

For example I could see there being an emoji for keyboard cat.

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Re:Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated by eternityforest on Monday September 19, 2022 @09:10PM (#32906402)
That wouldn't be practical. It would make fonts too big, and videos aren't a thing that goes inline in text.

However, I could totally see some kind of open source GIF library of a few hundred meme videos and pictures, to standardize the "Reply with a GIF" thing in some P2P chat ecosystem, and maybe it could have a new URL scheme for referring to OpenMemes images.

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