| ▲ | WalterBright 4 hours ago |
| > There are rather few legitimate uses of some zero-width characters, like ZWJ in emoji composition. Emojis are another abomination that should be removed from Unicode. If you want pictures, use a gif. |
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| ▲ | _flux 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Arguably them being in Unicode is an accessibility issue, unless we thought to standardize GIF names, and then that already sounds a lot like Unicode. |
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| ▲ | WalterBright 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | How is it an accessibility issue? HTML allows things like little gif files. I've done this myself when I wrote text that contained Egyptian hieroglyphs. It works just fine! | | |
| ▲ | _flux 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I mean if you don't have sight. | | |
| ▲ | WalterBright 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Then use words. Or tooltips (HTML supports that). I use tooltips on my web pages to support accessibility for screen readers. Unicode should not be attempting to badly reinvent HTML. |
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| ▲ | sghitbyabazooka 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| ( ꏿ ﹏ ꏿ ; ) |
