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Inside 'Emojigeddon': The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium (buzzfeed.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report on Buzzfeed: There's trouble afoot inside the Emoji Council of Elders, or, at the very least, signs of a low-simmering schism that's being referred to by some of its participants -- perhaps with less humor than one might expect -- as "Emojigeddon." A series of frustrated emails show a deepening rift between those who adhere to the organization's original mission to code old and obscure and minority languages and those who are investing time and resources toward Unicode's newer and most popular character sets: emojis. From the article: "The correspondence offers a peek behind the scenes of the peculiar and little-known organization that's unexpectedly been tasked with building what some see as the first digital universal language." What are your thoughts of emojis? Have you embraced and intertwined them into your digital language or are you unconvinced of their ability to transcribe any kind of deep understanding?
Whenever we discuss possible improvements to Slashdot, somebody always comes along and begs for Unicode support.
This submission just goes to show that Unicode support is not a good thing, and it is not needed here.
Slashdot should not become another Twitter or YouTube, with comments filled with goddamn emojis.
Slashdot should absolutely not allow itself to become filled with Chinese or Russian spam comments, either.
As an English-oriented site, anything that needs to be expressed here can be done using ISO-8859-1, and even that's pushing it.
There is no need for Unicode here at Slashdot.
Emojis are clip art for millennials.
Are we moving back to replacing words with pictures? Has Chinese been the right way all along?
I can't stand them. They offer very little real world value to anyone other than the slackjawed consumers content to rub on their phones all day.
s/phones/tablets/ and that's pretty much what Amenemhat said to Khnumhotep in 2650 BC.