On 2016/03/04 7:59, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Ryusei Yamaguchi<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello, Unicode
3rd March is hina-matsuri (雛祭り; Doll's Day) in Japan, and there is an emoji for
it: Japanese Dolls. I wrote an article on failures of that
emoji:http://mandel59.hateblo.jp/entry/2016/03/04/041437
Some vendors ship Japanese Dolls emoji that don't seem to be hina-matsuri
dolls. I wish difficulty of implementation of culture-dependent emoji be given
wider publicity by this post.
But, the name of the emoji is "JAPANESE DOLLS", not hina-matsuri, so
you are expecting a particular visual, which is not promised anywhere.
Is a bit like if I complained that some "MOUNTAIN" emojis are wrong
because they don't look like Monte Bianco.
Cheers
JAPANESE DOLLS in Unicode is collected from the character sets of KDDI
and SoftBank, Japanese telecom companies, and the emoji is named as 雛祭
り or ひな祭り (both are hina-matsuri) in these specs. Here is a capture
of Chart with FPDAM8 data and glyphs
<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicode.org%2F%7Escherer%2Femoji4unicode%2Fsnapshot%2Femojidata.pdf>
via https://sites.google.com/site/unicodesymbols/Home/emoji-symbols
And the NamesList.txt of Unicode Character Database gives the
description: Japanese Hinamatsuri or girls' doll festival. Aren't they
the authorities to let the emoji look like hina-matsuri?
Ryusei
