[IDN-WG] Are Emojis a pile of poo for the DNS?

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

Dear all,

last night I had an interesting conversation about a potential challenge
for IDNs.
You thought that all of the different scripts were a challenge? Well one
thing about a script, is that for most of them, they are actually quite
identifiable. Now take Emojis, by popular demand! Yes, Emojis. Different
interpretations of them, different types of Emojis, different colours,
and a commercial pressure that is mounting for Emojis to usable in
Domain names.

Discussion is going on in the IDNA update working group. Check the
thread around this message:
http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/idna-update/2017-March/007969.html

It's going to be challenging for universal acceptance, and something
between a ♥ because consumers are apparently asking for them, and a
Gemoji image for :poop
<http://www.fileformat.info/info/emoji/poop/index.htm>
because the DNS world is probably not ready for Emoji email addresses...
Kindest regards,

Olivier