On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> A zero-width joiner between two spacing symbols does not mean that they > should overlap completely, even if it allows some limtied form of ligature > (but mostly for true letters or letter like symbols, such as between a long > dash and an arrow head to connect them together in a long arrow...) > Your idea would mean that the oiner changes the width of the rainbow to > zero, using in fact a negative placement to overlap the flag, and then > cutting the rainbox exactly to its dimension. > The use of joiner with emoji can be rather different. See http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/ for details. > > Also the rainbow symbol alone U+1F308 is more like the one in the sky: it > is circular, and has a central uncolored area. > But the flag is means to be fully covered (not like the Jewish autonomous > republic in Russia) and should be using parallel horizontal bands. > Vendors have a fair degree of latitude as far as shapes, and the resulting glyph can be shown with a shape similar to the national flags, and with horizontal bands. > If it is encoded the flag will become certainly part of the emoji set (it > certainly has support for it in instant messaging, soon many apps for > mobile phones will feature it in US, Google will include it as well for > Android and Hangouts applications, Apple for iOS. And various IRC tools. > > Mobile phone providers will include it even if on such LGBT topic the > Japanese manufacturers were more "discrete" (there's still a social taboo > even if there's some level of acceptation). It is already sent via MMS only > as bitmap icons, but users will want to pay less to send them using SMS, or > to send them in Twitter. > Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*