> > Perhaps a larger set of ribbon characters, with defined colors for > each, is called for?
[image: crying pointing gun.jpg] But uh, seriously, the ribbon was encoded in the Great Wingdings and Webdings Migration of 2011 (see L2/12-368 <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12368-n4384.pdf> p.21) and I would imagine that future ribbon characters would be rejected precisely *because *they “have different associations when used in various campaigns and movements.” On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 2:08 AM Daniel R. Tobias via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > The Unicode standard for the Reminder Ribbon character (U+1F397) does > not appear to specify or suggest a color for the ribbon (the glyph > shown in the code chart is black, like other characters there). > Platforms that support this character among the other emojis do > however assign a color to it, as seen in character pick lists as well > as where the character is shown in sent or received messages. This, > however, is not done with any consistency; different platforms have > used yellow, blue, and red ribbons, as shown here: > > https://emojipedia.org/reminder-ribbon/ > > Different colors have different associations when used in various > campaigns and movements; some are listed here: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awareness_ribbons > > This can produce confusion when somebody uses the character (e.g., in > a tweet or text message) in association with a campaign that uses the > color that happens to match that used in the sender's platform (for > instance, yellow ribbons have been in current use to call for release > of Catalan prisoners held by Spain) but a reader of the message on a > different platform sees it differently, with a color that might have > different associations. > > Perhaps a larger set of ribbon characters, with defined colors for > each, is called for? Or is this better done by creating composite > characters with the existing ribbon character combined with a > color-specifying code point? > > -- > == Dan == > Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ > Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ > Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ > > >