>>1004389
>A font should be a set of 2-color glyphs. Adding thinsg like "large red circle" into the definition is outside the scope of what a font should be.
You're 100% right with that. However, it has less to do with Unicode and more with retards who implement emoji-font support into operating systems.
>>1004603
>But this arbitrary set of six flowers is completely useless.
It is.
>>1004606
>620KB of text shouldn't do that, why is unicode so garbage?
It's because of all the color shit and the wall of chink symbols.
And maybe because HTML get's slower rendering inline stuff the farther you go down because it need the width of all characters above.