Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Dec 25 2008 - 04:21:57 CST


On 25 Dec 2008, at 09:50, Ruszlan Gaszanov wrote:

> Personally, I see no problem with encoding a few more common
> emoticons - after all we already have U+2639, U+263A and U+263B. It
> is the value of encoding things like images of animals and
> vegetables or animated versions of existing punctuation I find
> highly questionable.

Lots of the animals are encoded as Egyptian hieroglyphs already.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com



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