Previously in this thread, it was suggested that I make a formal proposal
to the UTC. I have held back from doing this because it's not at all clear
what implementation I should be proposing, or whether I can propose
something WITHOUT an implementation. (Some advise there would be handy!)
Should I
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> I hear Asmus's concern about using WAVING WHITE FLAG as the base
>> character for emoji flags which might not be depicted as waving.
>
> I suppose there's no particular reason why U+2690 can't be the base
> character instead.
I sus
I wrote:
> I hear Asmus's concern about using WAVING WHITE FLAG as the base
> character for emoji flags which might not be depicted as waving.
I suppose there's no particular reason why U+2690 can't be the base
character instead.
But then Garth Wallace wrote:
> I'm concerned that the proposed
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Asmus Freytag (t)
wrote:
> On 7/6/2015 9:42 AM, Steve Swales wrote:
>
> Or a flag inversion modifier… recently I discovered that the Philippines
> flag, for example, has a special meaning (we are at war) when inverted.
> Just a thought.
>
>
> Rather than modifiers,
Leonardo Boiko wrote:
>> Is it your belief that users who wish to display an emoji flag care
>> whether the flag is shown stationary versus flapping in the wind?
>
> I think a waving white flag is an emoji symbol for
> "truce/surrender/come in peace", whereas a white rectangle doesn't
> easily tr
2015-07-06 17:11 GMT-03:00 Doug Ewell :
> Is it your belief that users who wish to display an emoji flag care
> whether the flag is shown stationary versus flapping in the wind?
I think a waving white flag is an emoji symbol for
"truce/surrender/come in peace", whereas a white rectangle doesn't
ea
Asmus Freytag (t) wrote:
> Rather than modifiers, I think a more natural thing would be to have
> different base characters that reflect whether it's a flag, a pennant,
> waving, flying from a flag stock or whatever other variety.
>
> Base characters could be limited to an "approved" list, which
On 7/6/2015 9:42 AM, Steve Swales
wrote:
Or a flag inversion modifier… recently I discovered that the Philippines flag, for example, has a special meaning (we are at war) when inverted. Just a thought.
Rather than modifiers, I think a more natural thi
On 7/6/2015 8:18 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
Most platforms display unknown printable characters as white
> rectangles with hex digits in them.
> In Doug's message, I saw a rectangle with 01F in the upper row, and
> 3F3 in the lower row.
This is a handy f
Steve Swales wrote:
> Or a flag inversion modifier… recently I discovered that the
> Philippines flag, for example, has a special meaning (we are at war)
> when inverted. Just a thought.
An inverted ensign on a ship was formerly used as a distress signal:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/xf-fl
Or a flag inversion modifier… recently I discovered that the Philippines flag,
for example, has a special meaning (we are at war) when inverted. Just a
thought.
-steve
> On Jul 1, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> wrote:
>
>> Whatever notation that might be added to whatever decisio
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Leo Broukhis wrote:
>> Most platforms display unknown printable characters as white
>> rectangles with hex digits in them.
>> In Doug's message, I saw a rectangle with 01F in the upper row, and
>> 3F3 in the lower row.
> > This is a handy feature, at least for cha
Leo Broukhis wrote:
>> This is a handy feature, at least for character geeks like us, but
>> "most platforms" might be a bit misleading here. There is a rather
>> commonly used platform that starts with the letter W which does not
>> do this.
>
> I was a little surprised myself when I saw it in F
Ken Whistler wrote:
> On the other hand, it might make sense to wait and see if it gains any
> traction when the UTC meets later this month and considers all of the
> feedback on the extended flag tag PRI #299 proposal together. If the
> concept of a Unicode flag pictograph registry garners no in
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
> Leo Broukhis wrote:
>
>> Most platforms display unknown printable characters as white
>> rectangles with hex digits in them.
>> In Doug's message, I saw a rectangle with 01F in the upper row, and
>> 3F3 in the lower row.
>
> This is a handy feat
On 7/6/2015 8:26 AM, Doug Ewell wrote:
Ken Whistler wrote:
In that case I think a new registry mechanism might in fact make sense
-- and I have spelled out details of how one could reasonably work in
conjunction with the extended flag tag proposal in feedback submitted
on PRI #299.
Is this
Ken Whistler wrote:
> Incidentally, back to the ostensible topic of this thread -- I don't
> think the extended flag tag proposal currently addresses the issue
> of how to represent a pictograph for a rainbow flag.
It doesn't.
> In that case I think a new registry mechanism might in fact make s
Leo Broukhis wrote:
> Most platforms display unknown printable characters as white
> rectangles with hex digits in them.
> In Doug's message, I saw a rectangle with 01F in the upper row, and
> 3F3 in the lower row.
This is a handy feature, at least for character geeks like us, but "most
platform
On Sat, Jul 04, 2015, Richard Wordingham wrote :
> I will also note that people are reluctant to type
> invisible characters if they don't have immediate benefits.
This might be the reason why U+2060 hadn't been properly implemented on the
spot on word processors, whose users were supposed not
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