Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 12:37:09 UTC 2018


On 9/22/18 4:52 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> I was laughing out loud when reading about composing "family"
>> emojis with zero-width joiners. If you told me that was a tech
>> parody, I'd have believed it.
> 
> Honestly, I was horrified to find out that emojis were even in Unicode. It
> makes no sense whatsover. Emojis are supposed to be sequences of characters
> that can be interepreted as images. Treating them like Unicode symbols is
> like treating entire words like Unicode symbols. It's just plain stupid and
> a clear sign that Unicode has gone completely off the rails (if it was ever
> on them). Unfortunately, it's the best tool that we have for the job.

But aren't some (many?) Chinese/Japanese characters representing whole 
words?

-Steve


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