> On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:11 PM, Wm via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > wrote: > > background: > > gnc 3.0 allows emojis in places I think inappropriate > > e.g. > > account names > account codes > securities > > and offers them in places it shouldn't > > e.g. > > dates > numbers > > === > > the thing I'm wondering about is if I am totally out of date or just being > realistic. > > Argument A: emojis are everywhere, everyone knows what they are, they all > mean the same thing, you're an old, out of date, fart, blah [3] > > Argument B: emojis are non standard, depend on platform, environment and are > by definition inconsistent and can't be reported on, used for tax purposes, > used internationally or generally be used for significant financial > communication [1] > > > === > > I also think there is something else (Trump supporters really should just > leave the room now, it'll save you apoplexy). > > it would make more sense to me if, long term, gnc allowed other character > sets (words have meaning) rather than trying to allow ill defined jumbles of > high bit chars in plain text xml files [4] > > my suggestion is that words that are understandable to the user, their > community in general, their tax and government authorities, etc are more > useful than emojis > > === > > and from a personal POV I just don't like them and think their use > inappropriate in a broad project like gnc that tries to be agnostic. > > === > > half for fun is this (.)(.) female breasts, an overweight man's chest or a > pair of eyes ? We think we know when we use them and they're often fine > amongst friends ... but do they belong in an accounting application as > accounting is, usually, formal in one sense or another and often used for > communicating to people outside of our immediate social circle. > > or to put it another way, do we want to be the accounting program that > allowed someone to use a picture of a turd for the inland revenue and then > used that in their tax return :) > > === > > [1] I accept, absolutely, that a nice smile face (I tend to stick to text, > myself) is pretty much universal these days; my argument is that when you > send me your emoji it doesn't necessarily appear the same to both of us, > mainly because there are a whole bunch of people owning [2] these things. > > [2] since some emoji sets are proprietary, how does that fit in with gnc as > an open source accounting project ? <-- I'm not invoking Stallman weirdness > so much as practical stuff like: are we all seeing the same thing? > > [3] return *fun* insults by e-mail please otherwise you'll get put on the > international wait-a-bit time zone dysfunctional list too :) > > [4] did a dev look at that and think, "super idea, we *must* include non-text > chars in our text based xml file. absolutely. best idea ever hashtag" or > whatever the current parlance is.
Filtering for meaning is Way Too Hard. It would be too hard just in English, every additional localization squares it. Besides, if a user wants to have an emoji as (part of) an account name, isn’t that the user’s business? It’s all Unicode, so from a text processing standpoint no different from Chinese. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
