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by WalterBright 3593 days ago
> I'm not sure where you've seen this "increasing use of icons

Consider all the icons used for "print" as if the letters P R I N T are unclear. Even for non-english speakers, it's trivial to look up the word in a dictionary, and impossible to look up the icon. Ditto for replacing "ON" with |. It's just madness.

> and emoji.

Perhaps their recent appearance in Unicode, and the several screens of them that appeared on my iphone texting app.