Memoji are not merely animated emoji; they are personalized avatars. As for animated emoji, I expect that the UTC would consider them out-of-scope for plain text. Note that web pages can already contain animated or moving elements which cannot be represented in plain text.
> On Jul 9, 2018, at 4:18 AM, William_J_G Overington via Unicode > <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > I have seen the following video. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjqERCCD4iM > > How will memoji be communicated from one device to another? > > What happens if a message containing a memoji gets into a web page, such as > in the archives of this mailing list? > > So, I am wondering whether memoji will become encoded into Unicode? > > Will Unicode also have animation features? > > This could be done with characters such as > > ANIMATION START MARKER > > ANIMATION FRAME SEPARATOR > > ANIMATION FINISH MARKER > > together with some more characters so as to specify frame duration > individually for each frame in milliseconds if other then a default 2000 > milliseconds is wanted for a particular frame. > > Could a message using memoji then be streamed using a plain text link? > > William Overington > > Monday 9 July 2018 >