Re: Emoji: Public Review December 2008

From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 20 2008 - 16:39:45 CST


All these broken and crazy things will be corrected in Duocode, the
successor standard of Unicode... ;-)

John H. Jenkins wrote:

> By this point, it's spilled milk under the bridge, and in the end, we're going to have to bite the bullet and add this to the list of ugly things that got added to Unicode even though proper advance planning would have obviated the need to do so (most of Latin Extended Additional, Greek Extended, a large chunk of CJK Extension B, precomposed Hangul, Roman numerals, circled digits, both the ears-out and ears-in versions of 說 et al., language tags, numeral formatting controls, all those darn spaces, Arabic Presentation Forms, lots of miscellaneous dingbats, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Kangxi Radicals, and lots of others that I can't think of at the moment).



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