Tag characters and in-line graphics (from Tag characters)

[David Starner]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:46 PM Chris <idou747 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I personally think emoji should have one, single definitive representation
> for this exact reason.
>

Then you want an image. I don't see what's hard about that.


> The community interested in tony the tiger can make decisions like that.
>

That is a hell of a handwave. In practice, you've got a complex decision
that's always going to be a bit controversial, and one a decision that most
communities won't bother trying to make.



> You can’t know because they’re images.
>

You can't know because the only obvious equivalence relation is exact image
identity.

You can’t iterate over compressed bits. You can’t process them.


Why not? In any language I know of that has iterators, there would be no
problem writing one that iterates over compressed input. If you need to
mutate them, that is hard in compressed formats, but a new CPU can store
War in Peace in the on-CPU cache.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/attachments/20150604/0ab1b3fc/attachment.html>