Re: Why so much emoji nonsense?

2018-02-15 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi via Unicode 
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 4:26 AM, James Kass via Unicode
 wrote:

> The best time to argue against the addition of emoji to Unicode would be
> 2007 or 2008, but you'd be wasting your time travel.  Trust me.

But it's always a good time to argue against the addition of more
nonsense to what we already have got.

Fwd: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now final for 2018

2018-02-11 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi via Unicode 
Enthusiastic reactions to the new emojis announcement:  https://xkcd.co
m/1953/

PB



On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:06 PM,  wrote:

> Emoji 11.0  data has been
> released, with 157 new emoji such as:
>

Re: Emoji for major planets at least?

2018-01-18 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi via Unicode 
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 1:19 AM, Aleksey Tulinov via Unicode
 wrote:
> Perhaps we all shall stop being ironical to each other, calm down, sit and
> discuss how to encode 3D animated emojies (animojies) in Unicode. Adopting
> something like COLLADA would be sweet. I guess COLLADA, being XML-based
> standard, already can be encoded by Unicode, so it shouldn't be a lot of
> hustle, just some paper work, right?

What???  No MPEG-4?

COLLADA is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't encode sounds!

Re: Emoji’s

2018-01-11 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi via Unicode 


Il giorno 11 gennaio 2018, alle ore 10:56, Philippe Verdy  
ha scritto:

>
>
>2018-01-11 6:35 GMT+01:00 Pierpaolo Bernardi via Unicode :
>
>On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 4:44 AM, jillian mestel via Unicode
> wrote:
>> To whom it may concern,
>> I was very disappointed to learn that there are no emojis of portraying a 
>> dominant left hand. I feel this is rude, and is setting this group of people 
>> apart, and disregarding them. There are emojis of all different races of 
>> right dominant hands, yet not left dominant hands are portrayed. I hope this 
>> can be fixed, and that leftys and rightys can be equals.
>> ✍🏻✍🏼✍🏿✍🏾✍🏽
>
>Then people with no hands will be discriminated.
>
> 
>
>Do you suggest those unable to use their hands should have their emojis with 
>their right or left foot holding the pen ?

No. Where did you get this idea from?

Re: Emoji’s

2018-01-10 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi via Unicode 
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 4:44 AM, jillian mestel via Unicode
 wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
> I was very disappointed to learn that there are no emojis of portraying a 
> dominant left hand. I feel this is rude, and is setting this group of people 
> apart, and disregarding them. There are emojis of all different races of 
> right dominant hands, yet not left dominant hands are portrayed. I hope this 
> can be fixed, and that leftys and rightys can be equals.
> ✍🏻✍🏼✍🏿✍🏾✍🏽

Then people with no hands will be discriminated.