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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:12PM (#45187194)
They should all have been declined. Emojis are not text and have no place in a text encoding standard.
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by Spivak on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:23PM (#45187376)
:)
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by bombcar on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @05:05PM (#45189110)
𓂺

Even if you got rid of emojis, people would find a way.

Even on Hacker News.

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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by account42 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:58AM (#45195075)
The big difference between text emoticons and emojis is that emoticons are not defined by a committee.
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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by Rebelgecko on Thursday September 11, 2025 @02:31AM (#45208494)
RFC 9078 stans in shambles
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