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Re:Terminal Support for Emoji by Timon3 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @08:21AM (#37047871)
How do you propose they get transmitted? In-band in the middle of text (good luck reading that with an unsupported editor), or through servers, necessitating NAT and all that good fun?

Since the images can be arbitrary you also open yourself up to bugs in the parser.

All around a much, much worse idea compared to text emojis.

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Re:Terminal Support for Emoji by perryizgr8 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:17PM (#37052419)
> good luck reading that with an unsupported editor

You need a "supported editor" to display Unicode emojis too, as TFA shows. And supposedly it is quite hard. OTOH displaying jpegs is a solved problem.

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Re:Terminal Support for Emoji by Timon3 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:32PM (#37052656)
> You need a "supported editor" to display Unicode emojis too, as TFA shows.

Let's give this a try. This is roughly what a sentence with an emoji looks like in an unsupported editor:

hello [] world

(with [] being the well-known "placeholder" square). Now let's try the same with an emoji, I went with 16x16 to make this kind of bearable, but realistically you'd want at least 64x64:

hello data:image/jpeg;base64,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 world

Now, which one is more readable?

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