> imagine I discover that someone has already proposed the emoji that I am interested in
In some cases we've have contacted people to see if they want to engage with other proposers. But to handle larger numbers we'd need a simple, light-weight way to let people know, while maintaining people's privacy when they want it. > Also, there seems to be no systematic reason... The ESC periodically prioritizes some of the larger sets and forwards a list to the UTC. >If an emoji proposal is well-formed and fits the general scope it should be forwarded to UTC. Emoji are a relatively small part of the work of the consortium, and should remain that way. So the UTC depends on the ESC to evaluate the quality and priority of proposals, based on the factors described. > Others are outdated, for instance because the larger set they have been added to has already been processed by UTC and they were declined. Some categories have only a single entry, others are clearly aliases of each other or subcategories. > I would like to help clean up the data, e.g. by commenting on the Google Spreadsheet that is embedded on the Unicode page. How can I do that as an individual member? That would be helpful, thanks. What I would suggest is taking a copy of the sheet, dumping into a spreadsheet (Google or Excel) and adding a column for your suggestions. You can then submit that. Note that the numbers are just to provide a count, there is no binding connection between them and the rest of the line. Mark Mark On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Christoph Päper via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > announceme...@unicode.org: > > > > The emoji subcommittee has also produced a new page which shows the > > Emoji Requests <http://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html> > > submitted so far. You can look at what other people have proposed or > > suggested. In many cases, people have made suggestions, but have not > > followed through with complete submission forms, or have submitted > > forms, but not followed through on requested modifications to the forms. > > This good news! However, imagine I discover that someone has already > proposed the emoji that I am interested in, but their formal proposal needs > some work: From the public data I can not see when this proposal has been > received or whether it has been updated. Since I also cannot contact the > author, either I have to hope they are still working on the proposal or I > have to submit a separate proposal of my own, duplicating all the work. > > Also, there seems to be no systematic reason for which proposals get > shelved as "Added to larger set" while related ones (e.g. random animals) > progress to the UTC. The ESC should not have this power of gatekeeping. If > an emoji proposal is well-formed and fits the general scope it should be > forwarded to UTC, hence be published in the L2 repository. Alternatively, > the ESC should collect *all* proposals that semantically belong to a larger > set (e.g. animals) in a composite document and forward this annually, for > instance. > > Some entries are also opaque or ambiguous, i.e. not helpful, e.g.: > > 705 Six Chinese Styles Added to larger set Mixed > 706 Six Chinese-style Emoji No proposal form Other > > Others are outdated, for instance because the larger set they have been > added to has already been processed by UTC and they were declined. Some > categories have only a single entry, others are clearly aliases of each > other or subcategories. I would like to help clean up the data, e.g. by > commenting on the Google Spreadsheet that is embedded on the Unicode page. > How can I do that as an individual member? >
