Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0
Shachar Shemesh
shachar at weka.io
Sat Sep 22 10:24:48 UTC 2018
On 22/09/18 11:52, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
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.
U+FDF2
Shachar
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