Comment by floxy

The real question is why don't we just have a <begin SVG> and <end SVG> Unicode tag, and let people go to town with whatever they want in the glyph space. It seems like that's what people really want? What are the down-sides? Sending obscene characters becomes easier. You lose the "meaning", since maybe Apple's version of the unicorn horse-shoe (unicorn-shoe?) has a different SVG encoding than Google's. Security-type denial-of-service-issues, with people rendering Mandelbrot fractal glyphs?