RE: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 14:02:56 CST

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    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Fynn

    > Asmus ~ if you include any symbol character "expressed as a discrete
    > unit in inline text" then pretty well every symbol or dingbat in
    > Microsoft's WingDings font is sometimes used that way...

    And there's nothing to say we'll never see a proposal to encode the symbols in Wingdings that are not yet encoded. It's certainly the case that text encoded using that font gets publicly exchanged.

    Peter



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