@dukepaaron @serge @hundertsieben Emoji are, from a standards point of view, a somewhat unique way for ISO to force unicode support on keyboard creators in regions where they wouldn't normally support anything other than the Latin alphabet. (Looking at you America). They also ended up being a kind of messed up workaround in the WordPress community to sneak in a security-related update before there was the ability to force an update from the .org side, but that's a long story that's something like ten plus years old now.