[IDN-WG] Fwd: [ NNSquad ] Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

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Subject: 	[ NNSquad ] Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji
Date: 	Sun, 5 Nov 2017 08:18:20 -0800
From: 	Lauren Weinstein <lauren at vortex.com>
To: 	nnsquad at nnsquad.org



Unicode is over and it dies over Emoji

http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/2745-unicode-is-over-and-it-dies-over-emoji/

	That is, something that was supposed to be an annotation for
	conveying emotion became not only anthropomorphised to the
	point where that meaning is overshadowed by race, gender and
	culture issues.

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A reminder of why I *never* have voluntarily used Emjoi in my
communications. And likely never will.

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