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<p>On 5/10/24 09:58, William_J_G Overington via Unicode wrote:</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px;">Is the scope of Unicode
unchangeable for ever?</span></p>
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<p>Forever is a long time, so who's to say? But you can be pretty
sure that if the scope does change, it will change _in response_
to usage, and not _to promote_ it. That's what happened with
emoji: they were in wide use already, the concept of them being
"plain text" was already in the community and in use among
vendors, and Unicode followed along. If you hope for the scope to
expand, YOU have to expand it first. The only time you can
reasonably ask "can we expand the scope?" is when Unicode really
has no choice but to say yes.</p>
<p>Go make the usage happen first.</p>
<p>~mark<br>
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