Re: Emoji-- all or nothing?

From: Christopher Fynn (chris.fynn@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 02:34:41 CST

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    On 07/01/2009, vunzndi@vfemail.net <vunzndi@vfemail.net> wrote:
    > Quoting "Asmus Freytag" <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>:
    >
    >> On 1/6/2009 4:13 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
    >>> On 6 Jan 2009, at 06:37, John Hudson wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> One might object that this means any emoji character would require
    >>>> four bytes instead of two, but that is also true if Unicode
    >>>> surrogate characters are used, and opposition to encoding emoji
    >>>> within the BMP seems stiffer than opposition to encoding them per
    >>>> se.
    >>>
    >>> I'm not sure I even want them in the SMP. I'm thinking Plane 14, at
    >>> least for the dodgier ones.
    >> Some people have made it clear they prefer plane 15 :-)
    >>
    >
    > Or plane 16:-)
    >
    >> A./

    Since these things can flap their wings and fly, residing on the upper
    planes should pose no problem.

    - C



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