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Curiology (EMOJI) Part 1 with Various Emoji Experts

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Importance of Fonts in Interoperability

The Unicode consortium was created 30 years ago. Every year the technical committee publishes rules and algorithms to achieve interoperability between different platforms and languages. They basically say here's a single character set that covers the languages of the world. And emoji are the same way. Each one is assigned a code point. It's like the code, the code that renders any number of things.

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