Newbie question about text encoding

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Le mardi 3 mars 2015 19:04:06 UTC+1, Rustom Mody a écrit :
> On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:33:44 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > On 2/26/2015 8:24 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > >> Wrote something up on why we should stop using ASCII:
> > >> http://blog.languager.org/2015/02/universal-unicode.html
> > 
> > I think that the main point of the post, that many Unicode chars are 
> > truly planetary rather than just national/regional, is excellent.
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> > You should add emoticons, but not call them or the above 'gibberish'.
> > I think that this part of your post is more 'unprofessional' than the 
> > character blocks.  It is very jarring and seems contrary to your main point.
> 
> Ok Done
> 
> References to gibberish removed from
> http://blog.languager.org/2015/02/universal-unicode.html 
> 
> What I was trying to say expanded here
> http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/whimsical-unicode.html
> [Hope  the word 'whimsical' is less jarring and more accurate than 'gibberish']

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Emoji and Dingbats are now part of Unicode.
They should be considered as well as a "1" or a "a"
or a "mathematical alpha".
So, there is nothing special to say about them.

jmf