Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017, at 19:21, Gregory Ewing wrote: > > Random832 wrote: > > > What about Emoji? > > > U+1F469 WOMAN is two columns wide on its own. > > > U+1F4BB PERSONAL COMPUTER is two columns wide on its own. > > Emoji comes from Japanese 絵文字 - 絵(E) picture, 文字(moji) > character.
Yes. Those (U+1F469 and U+1F4BB) are clearly pictures. The cell phone industry in East Asia insist that they are characters, loudly enough to get them into Unicode. I disagree strongly. -- \ “I don't accept the currently fashionable assertion that any | `\ view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and | _o__) opposite view.” —Douglas Adams | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
