Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 9/22/18 8:58 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, September 22, 2018 6:37:09 AM MDT Steven Schveighoffer via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> It's true that they're not characters in the sense that Roman characters are
> characters, but they're still part of the alphabets for those languages.
> Emojis are specifically formed from sequences of characters - e.g. :) is two
> characters which are already expressible on their own. They're meant to
> represent a smiley face, but it's a sequence of characters already. There's
> no need whatsoever to represent anything extra Unicode. It's already enough
> of a disaster that there are multiple ways to represent the same character
> in Unicode without nonsense like emojis. It's stuff like this that really
> makes me wish that we could come up with a new standard that would replace
> Unicode, but that's likely a pipe dream at this point.

But there are tons of emojis that have nothing to do with sequences of 
characters. Like houses, or planes, or whatever. I don't even know what 
the sequences of characters are for them.

I think it started out like that, but turned into something else.

Either way, I can't imagine any benefit from using emojis in symbol names.

-Steve