Comment in a leading German newspaper regarding the way UTC and Apple handle Emoji as an attack on Free Speech

[James Kass]

Comparing icons to box drawing characters is a non-starter.  BDCs were
included at the inception of Unicode because of the very encoding
principles which were scuttled in order to encode the icons.
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Any vendor is free to provide any glyph for any character regardless of
propriety.  For example, a swastika could be shown whenever the star of
David is encoded.  Any vendor providing a glyph which doesn't represent the
meaning of the character is doing a disservice to its users.  Only a fool
would bring a squirt gun to a gun fight.

Best regards,

James Kass
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