Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO

[Juri Linkov]

>> It's true that this isn't important. Still, I like the the "hello"
>> emoji; it's friendly.
>
> Yes, that was the idea. It's a pity that we cannot add valid utf-8
> characters to etc/HELLO, when they are not iso-2022-7bit compatible.

I don't understand why it's impossible to create a charset like the
existing mule-unicode-e000-ffff but for character range over U+FFFF
to include such characters as U+1F44B.  Or is this an inherent limitation
of the iso-2022-7bit coding system?