Re: Comment in a leading German newspaper regarding the way UTC and Apple handle Emoji as an attack on Free Speech

From: James Kass <jameskasskrv_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:08:21 -0800

Comparing icons to box drawing characters is a non-starter. BDCs were
included at the inception of Unicode because of the very encoding
principles which were scuttled in order to encode the icons.
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Any vendor is free to provide any glyph for any character regardless of
propriety. For example, a swastika could be shown whenever the star of
David is encoded. Any vendor providing a glyph which doesn't represent the
meaning of the character is doing a disservice to its users. Only a fool
would bring a squirt gun to a gun fight.

Best regards,

James Kass
Received on Sat Aug 27 2016 - 19:08:49 CDT

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