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0 pointsWalterBright11d ago0 comments

> There are rather few legitimate uses of some zero-width characters, like ZWJ in emoji composition.

Emojis are another abomination that should be removed from Unicode. If you want pictures, use a gif.

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Arguably them being in Unicode is an accessibility issue, unless we thought to standardize GIF names, and then that already sounds a lot like Unicode.

WalterBrightOP11d ago

How is it an accessibility issue? HTML allows things like little gif files. I've done this myself when I wrote text that contained Egyptian hieroglyphs. It works just fine!

_flux11d ago

I mean if you don't have sight.

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sghitbyabazooka11d ago

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0 pointsWalterBright11d ago0 comments

> There are rather few legitimate uses of some zero-width characters, like ZWJ in emoji composition.

Emojis are another abomination that should be removed from Unicode. If you want pictures, use a gif.

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_flux11d ago

Arguably them being in Unicode is an accessibility issue, unless we thought to standardize GIF names, and then that already sounds a lot like Unicode.

WalterBrightOP11d ago

How is it an accessibility issue? HTML allows things like little gif files. I've done this myself when I wrote text that contained Egyptian hieroglyphs. It works just fine!

_flux11d ago

I mean if you don't have sight.

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sghitbyabazooka11d ago

( ꏿ ﹏ ꏿ ; )

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse