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On 3/3/2015 1:03 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:33:44 PM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote:

>> You should add emoticons, but not call them or the above 'gibberish'.
>> I think that this part of your post is more 'unprofessional' than the
>> character blocks.  It is very jarring and seems contrary to your main point.
>
> Ok Done
>
> References to gibberish removed from
> http://blog.languager.org/2015/02/universal-unicode.html
>
> What I was trying to say expanded here
> http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/whimsical-unicode.html
> [Hope  the word 'whimsical' is less jarring and more accurate than 'gibberish']

I agree with both.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy