Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

2015-07-30 Thread William_J_G Overington
>> The easiest thing appears to be to not call the items emoji. >> I opine that a new word is needed to mean the following. >> A character that looks like it is an emoji character yet has precise semantics. > So, like, a localizable sentence character?

Re: Windows 10 release (is still: Re: WORD JOINER vs ZWNBSP)

2015-07-30 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Wen 29 Jul 2015, at 20:57, Richard Wordingham wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:10:02 +0200 (CEST) > Marcel Schneider wrote: > > > On 02 Jul 2015, at 12:22, I replied: > > > > > However, I believe that WJs being a part of plain text, they should > > > be properly supported on all text handlin

Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

2015-07-30 Thread Marcel Schneider
I'll try to respond to all, having not much time outside my main concerns, sorry. Indeed I agree that there are limits to the automatization of interhuman communication. In practice, whenever we are in contact with one another, the use of natural language is preferrable. Emoticons and other pic

Re: Windows 10 release (is still: Re: WORD JOINER vs ZWNBSP)

2015-07-30 Thread Doug Ewell
Marcel Schneider wrote: >>> Unfortunately that doesnʼt work on at least one recent version of >>> Windows. An unambigous bug was due to the presence of 0x2060 in the >>> Ligatures table. This has cost me a whole workday to retrieve, fix, >>> and verify. >>> >>> The effect of the bug was that Word

Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

2015-07-30 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 7/30/2015 10:07 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote: it might not be enough to avoid allergens, we should pay attention to the presence of palm oil because of the useless devastation of primates' habitats while enough fallow land exists in a concerned co

Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

2015-07-30 Thread Andrew West
On 30 July 2015 at 18:07, Marcel Schneider wrote: > > I'll try to respond to all, Please don't. Andrew

Re: Emoji characters for food allergens

2015-07-30 Thread Asmus Freytag (t)
On 7/30/2015 12:07 PM, Andrew West wrote: On 30 July 2015 at 18:07, Marcel Schneider wrote: I'll try to respond to all, Please don't. Andrew What Andrew said. A./