Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 17:07:21 CST

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    On 9 Jan 2009, at 22:42, André Szabolcs Szelp wrote:

    > Then please, let's wait for two hundred years and let's see which of
    > those newly invented emoji stood the test of time. I really won't
    > object encoding the surviving ones retrospectively.

    They didn't do that with the Zapf Dingbats, which happened to be hard-
    wired into the first laser printers.

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



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