[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #36955: Remove emoji from core. PLEASE

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#36955: Remove emoji from core. PLEASE
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 Reporter:  Online-marketing  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:
Component:  Emoji             |     Version:  4.5.2
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:                    |     Focuses:
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Changes (by DrewAPicture):

 * status:  reopened => closed
 * resolution:   => maybelater


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:4 Online-marketing]:
 > I sincerely appreciate having the end user in mind, when one designs a
 core framework. But on the other hand I would even more be grateful to
 developers who might give the publishers, who use the software on a daily
 basis the chance to not use so called user experience enhancements from
 the start without having to alter code or to install a plugin to not to.
 >
 > Furthermore I would develop a plugin for those users, who really want to
 use Smileys, Emojis and whatever else they would want to implement. The
 goal is to slim down and not to bloat. Every unneccessary byte is a byte
 too much, especially if i have to install about 30 plugins to make my
 wordpress run in desired ways.

 To be fair, `utf8mb4` support covers far more than just ''emoji'' or
 ''smileys'' – it also covers displaying native character sets for
 languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. I think it's safe to say
 that publishers worldwide benefit from wider language support in
 WordPress, so while some may not realize the immediate value, others
 absolutely do.

 WordPress is currently [https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ translated] for
 more than 150 locales around the world, and it's with that worldwide
 audience in mind that we extend language support wherever we can (within
 reason).

 It seems to me that a basic tenet of content management would be to avoid
 placing unnecessary burdens on content creators by doing our best to
 display content as it's intended to be displayed. The shims that exist in
 core WordPress are extending an olive branch to browsers that don't
 support modern language standards – it's not bloat, it's basic language
 support.

 '''I'm re-closing the ticket as ''maybelater''. Tickets do not need to
 remain open for discussion to continue.'''

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