That is not a problem unique to Emojis though. Some people construct multi-symbol things that would make a screen-reader call them what they are instead of what they "mean". Take for example the shrugging man made up of slashes, with a Japanese hiragana right in the middle of it!
It is a fundamentally wrong assumption that Unicode made: they thought if a code existed for everything, people would always use the code they are supposed to use. In reality, people seem more likely to choose symbols based on what each symbol looks like, and make their own composed "words". You practically need machine learning to correctly decipher what each string of symbols really "means".
It is a fundamentally wrong assumption that Unicode made: they thought if a code existed for everything, people would always use the code they are supposed to use. In reality, people seem more likely to choose symbols based on what each symbol looks like, and make their own composed "words". You practically need machine learning to correctly decipher what each string of symbols really "means".