Stationary vs. waving flags (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-06 Thread Doug Ewell
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

Re: Stationary vs. waving flags (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-06 Thread Leonardo Boiko
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

RE: Stationary vs. waving flags (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-06 Thread Doug Ewell
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

RE: Stationary vs. waving flags (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-06 Thread Doug Ewell
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

Re: Stationary vs. waving flags (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-06 Thread Garth Wallace
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

Re: Stationary vs. waving flags (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-19 Thread gfb hjjhjh
resending mails that were not sent correctly. -- 轉寄的郵件 -- 寄件者："gfb hjjhjh" 日期：2015年7月7日 下午4:30 主旨：Re: Stationary vs. waving flags (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode) 收件者： 副本： How about transparent flag? 2015年7月7日 上午4:24於 "Leonardo Boiko" 寫道： > 201

Re: Stationary vs. waving flags (was: Re: Adding RAINBOW FLAG to Unicode)

2015-07-19 Thread Doug Ewell
gfb hjjhjh wrote: I think a waving white flag is an emoji symbol for "truce/surrender/come in peace", whereas a white rectangle doesn't easily transmit the same idea. How about transparent flag? I'm still not convinced this is a problem that needs to be solved. "A flag goes here which your