The scary thing is if other platform gain money from some other way, like sponsorship from government of third country. One of the largest android fork nowadays is Aliyun in China, and it have already shown the capability to manipulate user documents when Alibaba and the Chinese government desired to.
Experience from China would tell you that's a/really/ bad idea. All apps would try to include their own message/push mechanism as they cannot ensure GCM would work and then they all have different ways to update due to lack of Google Play and also direct installation of fishy apk packages. was not found on this server.
Han unification is messy, but not in the way this article describe. Those character would turn into suitable glyph when there are correct setting on which language those text are in.
And those unified han characters are indeed same character in people's daily usage [in most of the cases], like when they are checking dictionaries for the character , people would understand having either or ++ on top is the same while Japanese use the former one and Taiwan people use the latter one, as much as how "color" and "colour" is considered as one single word in English.
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The scary thing is if other platform gain money from some other way, like sponsorship from government of third country. One of the largest android fork nowadays is Aliyun in China, and it have already shown the capability to manipulate user documents when Alibaba and the Chinese government desired to.
Experience from China would tell you that's a /really/ bad idea. All apps would try to include their own message/push mechanism as they cannot ensure GCM would work and then they all have different ways to update due to lack of Google Play and also direct installation of fishy apk packages. was not found on this server.
Tons of Chinese people using emoji online and they don't know English - except a few words like hello or byebye
Han unification is messy, but not in the way this article describe. Those character would turn into suitable glyph when there are correct setting on which language those text are in. And those unified han characters are indeed same character in people's daily usage [in most of the cases], like when they are checking dictionaries for the character , people would understand having either or ++ on top is the same while Japanese use the former one and Taiwan people use the latter one, as much as how "color" and "colour" is considered as one single word in English.
The current situation is someone (from google) submitted a request to unicode consortium, not unicode consortium looking for new symbols outside