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wodenokototoday at 10:53 AM1 replyview on HN

Generally Unicode is for encoding all existing encodings/writing.

So you generally can’t add something because it would be cool or fun or useful, but only because it is currently in use and cannot be encoded by Unicode.


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chordbugtoday at 11:20 AM

If this were entirely true, we'd never see new emoji added, and yet we do.