On 18 Aug 2017, at 00:50, Philippe Verdy via Unicode 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


2017-08-17 18:46 GMT+02:00 Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:
On 8/17/2017 7:47 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote:
2017-08-17 16:24 GMT+02:00 Mike FABIAN via Unicode 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Asmus Freytag via Unicode <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
さんはかきました:
Most emoji now have "W", for example:

1F600..1F64F;W   # So    [80] GRINNING FACE..PERSON WITH FOLDED HANDS

That seems correct because emoji behave more like Ideographs.

Isn’t this the same for “CIRCLED NUMBER TEN ON BLACK SQUARE”?
This seems to me also more like an Ideograph.

Not really. They have existed since extremely long without being bound to 
ideographs or sinographic requirements on metrics. Notably their baseline and 
vertical extension do not follow the sinographic em-square layout convention 
(except when they are rendered with CJK fonts, or were encoded in documents 
with legacy CJK encodings, also rendered with suitable CJK fonts being then 
prefered to Latin fonts which won't use the large siongraphic metrics).

If they were like emojis, they would actually be larger : I think it is a case 
for definining a Emoji-variant for them (where they could also be colored or 
have some 3D-like look)

There's an emoji variant for the standard digits.

Do you speak about circled numbers ? I don't think so.

I (and Mike as well to which I was replying) was speaking about a good case for 
defining emoji variant of these circled (or squared) numbers (Mike spoke about 
circled number 10, which is not encoded as an emoji and not even as an 
ideograph, and that he proposed to give a wide width property like ideographs).



Are not CJK ideographs both (W)ide and (S)quare? Does (W)ide imply or define 
that the ideograph should also be (S)quare?

It seems to me that there are many characters that are both (W)ide and (S)quare 
eg emoji

André Schappo

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