Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2008 - 13:48:00 CST


Joó Ádám <ceriak at gmail dot com> wrote:

> Sometimes I feel it's too bad that irony mark* has never got
> widespread use…
>
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark

But it is encoded, at U+2E2E. In any case, it is not necessary to
demonstrate widespread use to encode a character, only widespread
availability.

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