Putting emoji in unicode was a mistake.
@arguil Well, for one, 32 bits were supposed to be more than enough to accomodate any past, present and future writing systems, even fictional ones, but, thanks to emoji, we have almost run out of codepoints already.
@josemanuel@qoto.org @arguil@framapiaf.org @wolf480pl@mstdn.io it's not even close to 32 bits
each plane is 16 bits, and there's 17 of those (for encoding of ~20 bits of codepoints (limitation because of UTF-16)), and currently 10 of them are entirely unused and two designated as private use areas.
There's still a fuckton of space to add characters.
@ignaloidas You obviously missed the rest of the conversation, spongeman. Go soak in it and, of course, feel free to correct me if you still think I'm wrong.
@wolf480pl I didn't mean it as an insult. He's the one who called himself “information sponge”! But, still, I'm sorry.
@josemanuel @ignaloidas @arguil
oh, right, information sponge. Guess I overreacted
@wolf480pl@mstdn.io @josemanuel@qoto.org @arguil@framapiaf.org I've seen it, and I still don't agree with it 😛
@josemanuel@qoto.org @wolf480pl@mstdn.io @arguil@framapiaf.org I read the rest of it
We now have almost all of the past 5000 years of writing systems codified in less than a 10th of the space we set to ourselves to have, and if we stopped caring for UTF-16(as we should), we could easily double the space or more. Emojis simply will not grow enough to exhaust the usable space - we already have multiple photographic character sets in it that have grown for thousands of years in parallel, and this is just one set that is growing for the entire world at the same time. It simply won't grow that much, believe me. Especially since combining the characters is codified.
@josemanuel Hey no need to insult my friend!
The fedi tends to be bad at showing the same set of replies to everyone, the argument @ignaloidas seems to have missed is:
https://mstdn.io/@josemanuel@qoto.org/110100273711438594
@arguil