[gpderetta]

You can already put multi-column-wide non-ASCII characters in your source code, so the horse has left the barn already.

[umanwizard]

Of course you can. I'd argue you shouldn't, but that's beside the point. There is clearly a difference between people being able to do something, and the compiler forcing it on them.

[IshKebab]

But the compiler isn't forcing it on anyone?

[jcelerier]

How isn't it? It's setting it by default which is equivalent to forcing it for the huge majority of users who won't even know that such a thing as a flag to disable these emojis exists