Grapheme clusters, a.k.a.real characters

Tue Jul 18 20:08:17 EDT 2017

Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> The term "emoji" is becoming rather strained these days.
> The idea of "woman" and "personal computer" being emotions
> is an interesting one...

I think of “emoji” as “not actually a character in any system anyone
would use for writing anything, but somehow gets to squat in the Unicode
space”.
-- 
 \ “The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly |
 `\ monopolized learning.” —John Adams, _Letters to John Taylor_, |
_o__) 1814 |
Ben Finney