So I was looking at gdscript and wondered if I could use emojis in code. The answer is yes, I think. But then I thought aren't Chinese characters a form of ancient emojis? Apparently a lot of places I found on google seem to think yes. That Chinese characters were first created as pictographs and later were turned into modern writing. So if a compiler/language supports Chinese characters it is supporting some ancient emojis.

It is wild that history is kind of looping around and repeating with the creation of emojis.

Emoji are just Unicode characters that are established by the Unicode Consortium. Anyone can submit one to be evaluated.

Unicode was meant to solve the problem of conflicting character sets and different encodings in different regions/languages. Emoji got added to it when Japanese companies wanted to standard smileyfaces across carriers/devices.

So a Unicode symbol is exactly the same as a Mandarin or Hindi character as far as the type of byte representation.

Ancient languages have hieroglyphics and picture representations. Then we got letters that formed words. Now, we've come circle, creating a new form of hieroglyphics in the unicode codespace.

I look forward to the day when emoji emerges as its own language, with entire novels fully written in emoji.

Also guess this song: 📖👧😭ꕀ🌊🌎👀😥🖼️❤ 👩😃

Had to use Google Translate for that one particular tag, but it was worth it to understand.

Oh, yeah... this has reminded me of this old one, as well:

https://dr.molodetz.nl/rants/... .