On 12 April 2014 16:54, William_J_G Overington <wjgo_10...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> Would it be good, for an emoji that is not encoded in regular Unicode, to > include mention of the possibility of transmission by markup bubble, > rendered upon reception as an unmapped glyph by an OpenType colour font? > > For example, as nine Unicode characters. > > COLON COLON U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 COLON SEMICOLON > > This would perhaps not always allow new emoji to be added as quickly as > with embedded graphics, yet with this technique, the message could be > archived as plain text and would be searchable and text-to-speech would be > possible at the receiving end. > I don't think anything like what you suggest would be feasible, or desirable. Longer term, I think the most feasible approach is the interchange of embedded graphics, which can always have alt values (at least in html) for readings. Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
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