Rather than Emoji it might be better if people learnt Han ideographs which are also compact (and a far more developed system of communication than emoji). One CJK character can also easily replace dozens of Latin characters - which is what is being claimed for emoji.
On 02/04/2014, "Martin J. Dürst" <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that it's no longer April 1st (at least not here in Japan), I can > add a (moderately) serious comment. > > On 2014/04/02 01:43, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:01:39AM +0200, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: >>> More emoji from Chrome: >>> >>> http://chrome.blogspot.ch/2014/04/a-faster-mobiler-web-with-emoji.html >>> >>> with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NXNnoGr3Y >> >> I do not know… The demos leave me completely unimpressed: emoji — by >> their nature — require higher resolution than text, so an emoji for >> “pie” does not save any place comparing to the word itself. So the >> impact of this on everyday English-languare communication would not be >> in any way beneficial. > > This is somewhat different for Japanese (and languages with similar > writing systems) because they have higher line height. > > Regards, Martin. > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
