Announcing Unicode 7.0

Re:Announcing Unicode 7.0 by meepmorp on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @02:36PM (#7906110)

Nah, I think keeping unicode as "characters" is fine. It's perfectly reasonable to encode non-linguistic data as characters if they're using in such wise.

Edit: to circle back, you said:

  How are emoji different from other logograms?

and everything thereafter was pointless pedantry on my part. Sorry for wasting valuable minutes of your life.

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Re:Announcing Unicode 7.0 by sho_hn on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @02:59PM (#7906275)

No waste at all, you raised a good point :). Emoji are technically ideograms, not logograms ... though some of the Han characters are ideographic in origin/conception too (and then you get into cool things like compound ideograms), they just didn't stay purely ideographic.

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