We obviously need an emoji for every species name listed within The Official Registry of Zoological Nomenclature.
I propose a new set of Basic Latin characters, the Zoological Nomenclature Indicator Symbols, to be used for spelling scientific names, which are then rendered as cutesy colorful icons used as mood indicators. A Zoological Nomenclature Indicator Symbol Space must be included to separate name components; sequences including one such separator are assumed to be binomens, and two, trinomens. For example, a cat emoji can be encoded with the Zoological Nomenclature Indicator Symbols corresponding to [FELIS␣CATUS] or, following modern practice, [FELIS␣SILVESTRIS␣CATUS] (biological homonyms are to be treated as alternative encodings of the same abstract emoji). Notice that the current emoji set include such characters as CRYING CAT FACE (U+1F63F)) and KISSING CAT FACE WITH CLOSED EYES (U+1F63D), in addition to the default human (or, in a certain vendor, disgusting yellow amoebæ) faces; but no such equivalents for, say, dogs or bunnies, which can be a very dangerous political slight towards dog-people and bunny-people. With some adjustment, Zoological Nomenclature Indicator Symbols can solve the issue once for all, with perfect neutrality. All of the current face expression emoji are to be decomposed as FACE plus abstract combining characters; for example, U+1F642 SLIGHTLY SMILING FACE will be considered a compatibility variant of FACE + COMBINING SMILE + COMBINING SLIGHT FACIAL EXPRESSION. This would allow a dog version of U+1F63D encoded as: [CANIS␣LUPUS␣FAMILIARIS] + COMBINING FACE + COMBINING KISSING FACIAL EXPRESSION + COMBINING CLOSED EYES, and similarly for any species and expression combination, like, say, a ring-tailed lemur rolling on the floor laughing, or an okapi with tears of joy. (Drawing all possible glyphs is of course not Unicode's problem.) 2016-08-29 16:22 GMT-03:00 Leo Broukhis <l...@mailcom.com>: > It's new. Let's not tell Randall about the "completing the set" argument. > > Leo > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Karl Williamson <pub...@khwilliamson.com > > wrote: > >> "I'm excited about the proposal to add a brontosaurus emoji codepoint >> because it has the potential to bring together a half-dozen different >> groups of pedantic people together" >> >> From http://xkcd.com/1726/ >> >> I don't know if this is new, or I just never saw it before. >> >> >
