Re: Emoji (was: Re: Preparing a proposal for encoding a portable interpretable object code into Unicode)

2010-06-04 Thread William_J_G Overington
Thank you for your reply. On Friday 4 June 2010, Michael Everson wrote: > ... who do you think needs to know this kind of detail? Not a one of us, I am > sure, cares about the number of pixels in the Wikipedia graphic. Well, actually I mentioned the number of pixels for the purpose of ide

Re: Emoji (was: Re: Preparing a proposal for encoding a portable interpretable object code into Unicode)

2010-06-04 Thread Michael Everson
On 4 Jun 2010, at 10:47, William_J_G Overington wrote: > I noticed the use of colours other than black and white in several groups of > emoji. No, you have noticed the use of the strings ASCII RED and GREEN and BLUE and ORANGE in some UCS character names. > What I find interesting is that colo

Re: Emoji (was: Re: Preparing a proposal for encoding a portable interpretable object code into Unicode)

2010-06-04 Thread Doug Ewell
William_J_G Overington wrote: On Wednesday 2 June 2010, Doug Ewell wrote: However, the emoji proposal became far less objectionable (at least to me) when color and animation ceased to be considered as defining characteristics of plain-text characters, ... I noticed the use of colours other

Re: Emoji (was: Re: Preparing a proposal for encoding a portable interpretable object code into Unicode)

2010-06-04 Thread William_J_G Overington
On Wednesday 2 June 2010, Doug Ewell wrote: > However, the emoji proposal became far less objectionable > (at least to me) when color and animation ceased to be > considered as defining characteristics of plain-text > characters, ... I noticed the use of colours other than black and white in s

Emoji (was: Re: Preparing a proposal for encoding a portable interpretable object code into Unicode)

2010-06-02 Thread Doug Ewell
Van Anderson wrote: Emoticons (as emoji) are exchanged as plain text. The only consideration that changed was whether they should be considered as markup or not. Eventually, it became clear that they no longer do classify as markup, but as plain text. This was not a change inpolicy, it was a