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[LunaSea]

If you have to complain, it's broken. As a consumer I don't care what the issue is and who the responsible party is.

Unicode is a clusterfuck exactly because the chain is too long and the implementation errors are too easy to make and the world is rife with incomplete implementations.

[spookthesunset → LunaSea]

Every global standard is a clusterfuck at some level. That is just the nature of the beast.

Look at any widely adopted standard, be it exit signage, networking protocols, time standards anything... you’ll find a cluster.

If you tore down every one of those and tried to rebuild “from first principles”, eventually it too will become a clusterfuck.

[Wowfunhappy → LunaSea]

Is it really so surprising that updating a universal standard takes time?

IMO, these processes should happen slowly.

[LunaSea → Wowfunhappy]

It has nothing to do with the update speed and everything to do with the standard itself. Even if you were freezing Unicode now, you wouldn't encounter complete, correct implementations in the wild more than 50% of the time in the next 5 years.

[hombre_fatal → LunaSea]

Makes sense to just use image-replacement if you need emoji to show up reliably, like on a landing page.

Also spares you the problem of emoji implementation differences. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/516048/22-emojis-look-co...