On 1/1/2018 6:52 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jan 2018 13:24:29 +0530
Manish Goregaokar via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
<random non-emoji, skin tone modifier> sounds very much like a
degenerate case to me.
Generally yes, but I'm not sure that they'd be inappropriate for
Egyptian hieroglyphs showing human beings. The choice of determinative
can convey unpronounceable semantic information, though I'm not sure
that that can be as sensitive as skin colour. However, in such a case
it would also be appropriate to give a skin tone modifier the property
Extend.
They would be inappropriate because it's not part of the hieroglyphic
writing system to make those distinctions.
"Over expressiveness" is sometimes a problem rather than a feature when
it comes to Unicode.
A./
Richard.
