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Yes. We shouldn't dismiss the weight of non-technical people voting with their dollars.

They may not care about i18n, but they do care about cute emoticons.

So we get not just unicode support everywhere, but also character pickers inside the keyboard.

And now we also get to benefit from unicode for things we find pretty - for example, the famous powerline https://github.com/powerline/powerline

Information density matters, and I can't wait for someone to replace "old" color coding of files (.dircolors in batch) by 1 emoticon : a music note for music files, etc.



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