A handful of emojis, fine. Pictures are not language.
We don't need a bunch of new pictures to "support the world's writing systems" (their own words).
kanbara 5 days ago|
in fact, many proto languages were glyph based. human language and pictographs are intertwined— just look at how people use smileys, emoji, kaomoji, and more.
aydyn 5 days ago||
Then include those languages. Emojis are not part of any language.
MangoToupe 5 days ago||
I had no idea emoji were such a sensitive topic. This truly is a forum full of grumpy old men. I'll file this away as some of the best engineer ragebait I've ever seen.
npteljes 5 days ago|
It is, because if you think about it, it's a top-down approach to something intimately integrated into most everyone's lives - into engineers' lives for sure. As it's top-down, it will be applied to everyone (to an extent), and as the source of it is just a bunch of humans, it's beholden to politics and intricacy, and so, controversy as well.
lyu07282 4 days ago||
A million things are like that, people are profoundly stupid, it's only ever an issue if someone invests money to cut propaganda against it to make people hate it. "Unicode gives us a shared codepoint space for all languages in the world, a deeply anti American idea, it fundamentally contradicts the ethno nationalist ideal our country was founded upon!"
npteljes 4 days ago||
I'm inclined to agree. Even if people get worked up on the pregnant man emoji or whatever, it's not like anybody is forced to use any of it.
OutOfHere 6 days ago|
It is sad to see the limited Unicode character space go to waste with these silly additions. The unallocated space should be reserved for future civilizations, AI intercommunication languages that are yet to come, extraterrestrial languages that will emerge, etc. Filling up the space with garbage dooms it.
layer8 5 days ago|
At the rate at which new emojis are being added, the currently unallocated space would be exhausted in around 4000 years. However, there's also the option to extend Unicode beyond U+10FFFF, if future civilizations are determined enough.
OutOfHere 5 days ago|||
The way we think about time is very human-centric, and specifically it relates to individuals, not even to the lengths of civilizations. Even a human civilization is expected to last at least a thousand years. As for 4000 years or even 100,000 years, that would be nothing much to an AI. It would purportedly take several hundreds of thousands of years before sufficient memory corruption sank in to the point where algorithmically repairing the corruption, even if in a low steady dose, would be akin to neutering the individual identity of the AI.
account42 5 days ago|||
> However, there's also the option to extend Unicode beyond U+10FFFF, if future civilizations are determined enough.