Re: master a1fcdee: Add emoji to etc/HELLO

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:52:14 -0400, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> said:

    >> On Oct 22, 2020, at 2:39 AM, Kai Ma <ksqsf@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
    >> 
    >> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
    >>> I have rarely seen emojis -- they appear as diamonds in my Emacs on a
    >>> tty -- but my understanding is that it isn't feasible for us to define
    >>> our own.  So I think there is no way to make a GNU emoji, and no way to
    >>> tell a story about GNU with emojis.
    >> 
    >> FYI, the Unicode Consortium has been accepting emoji proposals [1]. You
    >> can submit a proposal about GNU to them.
    >> 
    >> [1] https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html
    >> 
    >> 

    Yuan> They have accepted so many absurd proposals, surely a GNU one wouldn’t
    Yuan> harm. They added Flamingo, Sloth, Otter, Orangutan in 2019. Maybe FSF
    Yuan> people can propose one that tells FSF and GNU stories?

If weʼre going to propose a GNU, surely we should propose a Saint
iGNUcious as well?

Robert
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