Re: Updated emoji working draft

2014-04-12 Thread William_J_G Overington
A multi-colour multi-do-not glyph displayed in Venice. https://maps.google.com/?ll=45.435077,12.333736spn=0.00071,0.001124t=mz=19layer=ccbll=45.435113,12.333845panoid=D0xVyae3dpu1Z5dA8nkXyAcbp=12,292.04,,0,13.68 Please zoom in 3 times and go full screen. William Overington 12 April 2014

Re: Updated emoji working draft

2014-04-12 Thread Philippe Verdy
Clearly not a glyph but a free logographic composition with icons. Such composition pattern is in fact very common, not exclusive to this place, and the various sub-icons will change in all aspects: number of objects, placement, color, relatve sizes, and drawing styles (photos may be used as

Re: Updated emoji working draft

2014-04-12 Thread William_J_G Overington
I found this rather fine example of some do not signs in use in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It is zoomed-in, so one needs to zoom-out, three times, in order to be able to move around in the simulation.

Re: Updated emoji working draft

2014-04-12 Thread William_J_G Overington
The document http://unicode.org/draft/reports/tr51/tr51.html at present includes the following. quote There is one further kind of label, called a read-out, for text-to-speech. For accessibility when reading text, it is useful to have a semi-unique name for an emoji character. The Unicode

IPA and unofficial extensions

2014-04-12 Thread Jean-François Colson
Hello I have a few questions about the IPA and about its unofficial extensions. In the consonant charts at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/IPA_chart_2005_png.svg there are a few grey symbols which are already in the IPA: ȹȸᴙꞎ. There are also three symbols I didn’t find: –

Re: Updated emoji working draft

2014-04-12 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
On 12 April 2014 11:46, William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.comwrote: ​...​ In March 2014 I published the attached document, depositing a copy with the British Library. The_format_of_the_translit.dat_file_suggested_for_possible_use_for_transliteration.pdf Is this format suitable to

Re: Updated emoji working draft

2014-04-12 Thread William_J_G Overington
The document http://unicode.org/draft/reports/tr51/tr51.html at present includes the following. quote The longer-term goal for implementations should be to support embedded graphics. That would allow arbitrary emoji characters, and not be dependent on additional Unicode encoding. end quote

Re: Updated emoji working draft

2014-04-12 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
On 12 April 2014 16:54, William_J_G Overington wjgo_10...@btinternet.comwrote: Would it be good, for an emoji that is not encoded in regular Unicode, to include mention of the possibility of transmission by markup bubble, rendered upon reception as an unmapped glyph by an OpenType colour font?