>From a mail which I had sent to two other Unicode contributors just a few days ago:
Frankly I agree that this whole emoji thing is a Pandora box. It should have been restricted to emoticons to express facial or physical gestures which are insufficiently representable by words. When it starts representing objects like 🍇🍎 then it becomes a problem as to where to draw the line. I mean I can see the argument for 💐 representing gratitude, but which fruits are valid and which not... And which food items are valid and which not, else you would get proposals for idli and dosa emojis as well! (Those who don't know what those are see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idli and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dosa) It seems to me that graphical items previously rejected as such are now being encoded. I mean, if other things like bat ball etc then "why not this one" cannot be refused, but the question is whether encoding bat ball in the first place was keeping with the original intention or spirit of Unicode. Anyhow, what is done is done and the Pandora's box is now open and I don't envy the ESC their job. I don't know, maybe sometimes they may just feel like hitting "ESC" too! -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा 𑀰𑁆𑀭𑀻𑀭𑀫𑀡𑀰𑀭𑁆𑀫𑀸