On 29 July 2015 at 14:42, William_J_G Overington <[email protected]> wrote: > > For example, one such character could be used to be placed before a list of > emoji characters for food allergens to indicate that that a list of dietary > need follows. > > For example, > > My dietary need is no gluten no dairy no egg > > There could be a way to indicate the following. > > My diet can include soya
There already is, you can write "My diet can include soya". If you are likely to swell up and die if you eat a peanut (for example), you will not want to trust your life to an emoji picture of a peanut which could be mistaken for something else or rendered as a square box for the recipient. There may be a case to be made for encoding symbols for food allergens for labelling purposes, but there is no case for encoding such symbols as a form of symbolic language for communication of dietary requirements. Andrew
