Re: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-11-13 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Asmus Freytag wrote as follows. Just because a select group of people engages in communication about the arcane details of a proposed specification it doesn't mean that the outcome will benefit some entirely different and larger group communicate better. This is logically true. However the s

Re: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-11-12 Thread James Kass via Unicode
On 2019-11-13 3:00 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote: The current effort starts from an unrelated problem (Unicode not wanting to administer emoji applications) and in my analysis, seriously puts the cart before the horse. But it does solve the unrelated problem. There's nothing stopping ve

Re: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-11-12 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 11/12/2019 12:32 PM, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode wrote: > Just because you can write something that is a very detailed specification doesn't mean that it is, or ever should be, a standard. Yes, but that does not mean that

Re: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-11-12 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Asmus Freytag wrote as follows. If leading standardization was such a good thing in communication, why don't we see more "dictionaries of words not yet in use"? After all, it would be a huge benefit for people coining new terms to have their definitions already worked out. Nothing inherent in

Re: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-11-12 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 11/12/2019 8:41 AM, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode wrote: Asmus Freytag wrote as follows. While I have a certain understanding for the underlying concerns, it still is the case that this proposal promises to be a bad exam

Re: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-11-12 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Asmus Freytag wrote as follows. While I have a certain understanding for the underlying concerns, it still is the case that this proposal promises to be a bad example of "leading standardization": throwing out a spec in the hopes it may be taken up and take off, instead of something that meets

RE: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-11-12 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
WJGO >>Yet if QID emoji are implemented by Unicode Inc. without also being implemented by ISO/IEC 10646 then that could lead to future problems, ... Peter Constable wrote as follows. Neither Unicode Inc. or ISO/IEC 10646 would _implement_ QID emoji. That is correct. I should have made clea

Re: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-11-09 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 11/9/2019 3:18 PM, Peter Constable via Unicode wrote: Neither Unicode Inc. or ISO/IEC 10646 would _implement_ QID emoji. Unicode would provide a specification for QID emoji that software vendors could implement, while ISO/IEC 10646 would not define that specifica

RE: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-11-09 Thread Peter Constable via Unicode
Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:19 PM To: wjgo_10...@btinternet.com Cc: unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: New Public Review on QID emoji On 10/30/2019 10:41 AM, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode wrote: > > At present I have a question to which I cannot find the answer. > > Is the QID

Re: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-10-30 Thread Ken Whistler via Unicode
On 10/30/2019 10:41 AM, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode wrote: At present I have a question to which I cannot find the answer. Is the QID emoji format, if approved by the Unicode Technical Committee going to be sent to the ISO/IEC 10646 committee for consideration by that committee?

Re: New Public Review on QID emoji

2019-10-30 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Hello everyone I have been reading about QID emoji and what is proposed. At present I have a question to which I cannot find the answer. Is the QID emoji format, if approved by the Unicode Technical Committee going to be sent to the ISO/IEC 10646 committee for consideration by that committee?