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0 pointsWalterBright3mo 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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_flux3mo ago· 2 in thread

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.

WalterBrightOP3mo 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!

_flux3mo ago

I mean if you don't have sight.

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