Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, September 22, 2018 4:51:47 AM MDT Thomas Mader via Digitalmars-
d wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 10:24:48 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
>
> wrote:
> > Thank Allah that someone said it before I had to. I could not
> > agree more. Encoding whole words as single Unicode code points
> > makes no sense.
>
> The goal of Unicode is to support diversity, if you argue against
> that you don't need Unicode at all.
> What you are saying is basically that you would remove Chinese
> too.
>
> Emojis are not my world either but it is an expression system /
> language.

Unicode is supposed to be a universal way of representing every character in
every language. Emojis are not characters. They are sequences of characters
that people use to represent images. I do not understand how an argument can
even be made that they belong in Unicode. As I said, it's exactly the same
as arguing that words should be represented in Unicode. Unfortunately,
however, at least some of them are in there. :|

- Jonathan M Davis