Post #1822808
2026-03-16 15:01 UTC
@cliffle @ekuber @bitprophet the one that really brings my piss to a boil is the curiously-persistent accusation that the Unicode codespace is being "filled up" with frivolous things (emoji is a favored punching bag for this particular set of joyless critics)
It takes about 30 seconds to look up the number of assigned codepoints and compute that as of 17.0.0, the filled fraction of Unicode after more than 30 years is…
159,801 / 0x10FFFF = 14.3%
but then, these sorts of criticisms NEVER come from a place of caring about text encoding, there are other motives at work.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-03-16 15:08
@SnoopJ @cliffle @ekuber @bitprophet And the vast majority of the assigned space is ideographic. Not emoji or anything else "frivolous".
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@timmc@better.boston 2026-03-16 17:22
@SnoopJ @cliffle @ekuber @bitprophet I have a *lot* of complaints about emoji but they're from a place of caring about text encoding, not about the space being taken up.