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> The meaning of the words will change over time, but not the words themselves.

1. orthography also changes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s)

2. the purpose of words is to communicate concepts, if the meaning of the word changes the word itself has changed, reducing a word to its mere orthography is nonsensical

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>orthography also changes

Not of things already written down. The long S written in the Constitution is still there. It has not changed, and there would be outrage for anyone to go and change it. Changing the emoji from one meaning to another would be like changing the encoding of utf-8 so that a now means e and e means a, meaning that and and end flips in every utf-8 encoded file that is viewed.

Would you see any issues with Apple changing the orthography of the character f from "f" to "g"?

guck yes!

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