#unicode

There's a small house ( ⌂ ) in the middle of IBM's infamous character set Code Page 437. "Small house"—that's the official IBM name given to the glyph at code position 0x7F, where a control character for "Delete" (DEL) should logically exist. It's cute, but a little strange. I wonder, how did it get there? Why did IBM represent DEL as a house, of all things?

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?

"For times when you can't insert images into your posts, you can insert Unicons! Use this on Twitter, TypePad, Tumblr... pretty much any text field on the web that accepts unicode characters. "

"Clearly, the way to make programs written in the language shorter is to force them to deal with Unicode on their own."