How Emojis Complicate the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/how-the-appetite-for-emojis-complicates-the-effort-to-standardize-the-worlds-alphabets.html

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IMHO, Unicode should not involve itself with emoji at all. Give one code page over to the tech companies, and let them go nuts with whatever pictograms they want, but it's a huge distraction and unrelated to the real goals of Unicode.