RE: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 12:22:29 CST

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From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Magnus Bodin

>> The emoji illustrate this power -- transmitting fully animated color
>> images in a few bytes is an efficient use of bandwidth.
>
> So Unicode is becoming an encoding format for images and other media?

No, it is not (just in case anybody wasn't sure).

Peter

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