On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Christoph Päper wrote:
> Garth Wallace :
> > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:19 AM, Christoph Päper <
> christoph.pae...@crissov.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Although Michael Everson readily dismisses any connection to emojis,
> (...)
> > > normal emoji design actually matc
On 4/7/2017 4:33 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 8 Apr 2017, at 00:28, Rebecca T <637...@gmail.com> wrote:
while evidently there are users who need to send BROCCOLI to one another,
nobody but nobody needs to send an 8 x 8 chessboard matrix in a tweet. Get
it?
I simply must disagree; sending a te
On 8 Apr 2017, at 00:28, Rebecca T <637...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > while evidently there are users who need to send BROCCOLI to one another,
> > nobody but nobody needs to send an 8 x 8 chessboard matrix in a tweet. Get
> > it?
>
> I simply must disagree; sending a textual chessboard sounds awesome
> while evidently there are users who need to send BROCCOLI to one another,
> nobody but nobody needs to send an 8 x 8 chessboard matrix in a tweet. Get
> it?
I simply must disagree; sending a textual chessboard sounds awesome! A
twitter
bot that plays chess with you and shows you a graphical repr
On 6 Apr 2017, at 18:43, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>> It’s an argument for legibility.
>
> And an argument for rendering purpose only;
Why? Shouldn’t human beings be able to read things that are rendered?
> the actual 2D layout of chess diagrams is not part of Unicode
The chesspiece characters a
On 7 Apr 2017, at 23:17, Christoph Päper wrote:
>> The only connection this has with emoji is that it uses the variation
>> selector system.
>
> As I've shown, that's not the *only* connection.
Christoph, YOU ARE WRONG.
Emoji as a special relationship with vendors and a particular implementat
Garth Wallace :
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:19 AM, Christoph Päper
> wrote:
>
> > Although Michael Everson readily dismisses any connection to emojis, (...)
> > normal emoji design actually matches "diagram" notation quite nicely in
> > that all
> > emoji glyphs are rendered within an (ideograp
> At some point this should be taken off the main list since discussion will
> get very detailed very quickly.
> I agree. How should we get all the interested parties together?
> Everybody interested, raise your hand
Yes please.
William
On 7 Apr 2017, at 11:01, Richard Wordingham
wrote:
>
> Of course, if U+25A1 WHITE SQUARE is the outline of a square, it then seems
> odd that a valid presentation form should be just a spacing glyph, as seems
> to be preferred for chess boards! I suppose this could be considered an edge
> ca
On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 13:17:36 -0700
Asmus Freytag wrote:
> While it appears possible, after Khaled's demonstration, I still
> think that the use of "white ink" instead of the "white" parts of a
> character being treated "transparent" is far from standard text
> presentation. (And I've yet to see an
2017-04-06 18:26 GMT+02:00 Kent Karlsson :
>
> Den 2017-04-06 03:05, skrev "Michael Everson" :
>
> > On 6 Apr 2017, at 01:54, Kent Karlsson
> wrote:
> >
> - some bidi fix [preferably making the box/border drawing characters
> bidi
> "L", if possible; otherwise a caveat that if there is
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