Git v2.24.1 and others

Posted Dec 18, 2019 12:06 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Git v2.24.1 and others by flussence
Parent article: Git v2.24.1 and others

Aren't emojis using up UTF-8 codepoints? I can very well imagine the human race fill up the UTF-8 codepoints, unfortunately...

Git v2.24.1 and others

Posted Dec 20, 2019 0:33 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

The bulk of existing emojis came from a set already used among Japanese phone carriers around the turn of the century. That's why U+1F5FC is labelled the Tokyo (not Eiffel) Tower, and most of that block is similarly laden with cultural artifacts most people wouldn't be familiar with.

We're actually running out of things to add to Unicode. New emoji proposals are in short supply and most of the recent additions have been ancient scripts and increasingly obscure precomposed CJK glyphs. Maybe of more relevance to people reading this, Unicode 13 is adding characters from ancient computer systems (Spectrum, Teletext, C64 and the like): https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-13.0/

Git v2.24.1 and others

Posted Dec 23, 2019 15:13 UTC (Mon) by geert (subscriber, #98403) [Link]

Looks like we're still lacking a few characters to run a C64 emulator in a terminal window? ;-)