Emojis should have been implemented in unicode with an escape character that means "treat the enclosed text as an emoji" and left as a free for all for people to implement what keywords they want. We're going to run out of code points long before we exhaust the pictograms people want to express, and this isn't something the unicode consortium should be adjudicating.

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@moultano well, for the whole "communication" thing to work, the representation at least needs to be standardized

idk if there's a *better* entity to be doing that than the Unicode Consortium

@dedicating_ruckus I think it would work out well enough leaving it up to the font/platform. That's already basically the status quo with all the custom emojis on discord servers, squirtgun vs gun in the standard vs platforms, etc.

@dedicating_ruckus Having a textual description of it to back off to is already more portable than a tofu box missing character.

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