Thanks to all who answered. The answers are very clear, but the original message and the adoption page are in my opinion much less clear. I can however live with it :-)
Best regards Janusz On Wed, Feb 28 2018 at 11:53 +0100, m...@macchiato.com writes: > Also, please click through from the announcement to > http://www.unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html. > > If it isn't apparent from that page what the relationship is, we have some > work to do... > > Mark > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode > <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > On 2018/02/28 19:38, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27 2018 at 13:45 -0800, announceme...@unicode.org writes: > > The 157 new Emoji are now available for adoption, to help the Unicode > Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages. > > I'm quite curious what it the relation between the new emojis and the > digitally disadvantages languages. I see none. > > I think this was mentioned before on this list, in particular by Mark: > The money collected from character adoptions (where emoji are a prominent > target) is (mostly?) used to support work on not-yet-encoded (thus digitally > disadvantaged) scripts. See e.g. the recent announcement at > http://blog.unicode.org/2018/02/adopt-character-grant-to-support-three.html. -- , Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej) Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department) jsb...@uw.edu.pl, jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/