Why so much emoji nonsense?

[David Starner via Unicode]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 2:35 PM James Kass via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
wrote:

> David Starner wrote,
>
> > They were characters being interchanged as text
> > in current use.
>
> They were in-line graphics being interchanged as though they were
> text.  And they still are.  And we still disagree.
>

They were units of things being interchanged in formats of MIME types
starting with text/ . From the beginning, Unicode has supported all the
cruft that's being interchanged in formats of MIME types starting with
text/.
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