[x3d-public] "How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s Alphabets" - NY Times Magazine

[Don Brutzman]

Interesting description of emerging technologies and also how 
standards-development efforts progress - many parallels to Web3D Consortium and 
X3D efforts.

"How the Appetite for Emojis Complicates the Effort to Standardize the World’s 
Alphabets"
By MICHAEL ERARD, 18 October 2017, NY Times Magazine

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/magazine/how-the-appetite-for-emojis-complicates-the-effort-to-standardize-the-worlds-alphabets.html

"Do the volunteers behind Unicode, whose mission is to bring all human languages 
into the digital sphere, have enough bandwidth to deal with emojis too?"

all the best, Don
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Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br       brutzman at nps.edu
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