[masklinn]

> Unicode is fucked. All these bullshit emojis

Ah yes, all those bloody emoji taking the place of better worthier characters, those dastardly pictures taking up all of one half of one 16th of one Unicode plane (which has only 16 of those, and only 14 public).

And the gall they have, actually being used and lighting up their section of plane 1 like a christmas tree while the rest of the plane lies in the darkness: http://reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode/heatma... what a disgrace, not only existing but being found useful, what has the world come to.

And then of course there's the technical side of things: emoji actually forced western developers — and especially anglo ones — to stop fucking up non-ASCII let alone non-BMP codepoints. I don't think it's a coincidence that MySQL finally added support for astral characters once emoji started getting prominent.

In fact, I have a pet theory that the rash of combining emoji in the latest revisions is in part a vehicle to teach developers to finally stop fucking up text segmentation and stop assuming every codepoint is a grapheme cluster.