[xdennis]

What the GP is complaining about isn't Unicode in general but Unicode Emoticons[1]. Characters can represent any thought, but emojis represent only what the committee agrees to, and the committee seems quite political.

What they should have done is to just have two characters <START_EMOTICON> and <END_EMOTICON>. And you could have text like:

    I'm not doing it <START_EMOTICON>pouting<END_EMOTICON>

If the renderer supports the "pouting" emoji it would replace the text and if it doesn't it would just render:

    I'm not doing it *pouting*

Everyone would be free to create emojis. You could pick your own emoji provider. So if the emoji doesn't exist locally it would be fetched from `http://emojiprovider.tld/pouting`. If you don't like it you can install another one.

It's ridiculous that there's no "pouting" emoji but there 6 emojis for pregnant men.

[1]: Yes, they're called emoticons in Unicode, not emojis. The term emoji entered English later.