I think Blissymbols could be a separate, well-defined script in Unicode because they are already more or less well defined by their respective groups. This community of interest can lobby for these implementations as a whole instead of multiple individuals separately.
Emoji were born in quite a different way and are in no way as well defined as Blissymbols are for example. There is no self-governing forum of people to discuss the future of emoji and forthcoming additions. Obviously, because they gained international attention just as they were added to Unicode-Standard but also maybe because "working with the Emoji Subcommittee" is rather hard. The conversation about Blissymbols made me think about a solution on how to solve the current communication problem, although it might be a bit radical: Why not remove the authority to propose new emojis from the ESC and give it to a dedicated, public Emoji-Community. Such a community could formulate additional guidelines for upcoming emojis, draft roadmaps and send a quarterly proposal to the ESC for individual approval. Unicode Members could still express ideas and exercise power through participating in the community and appointing people to the ESC. [image: diagram.png] This change would remove pressure and workload from the ESC while retaining most of the control, especially the last word, but the Emoji-Standart would benefit from a dedicated community. I'm just putting this out there. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think this is unreasonable, or achievable? Julian 🔏 On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 3:25 PM James Kass via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > Rebecca Bettencourt wrote, > > > Why don't we just get Blissymbolics encoded as it is? > > The Pipeline still has the Everson proposal from 1998, but Blissymbols > are still in the Pipeline. > > Scripts Encoding Initiative > ( http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/ ) > page, > http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/scripts-not-encoded.html > shows Blissymbols and links the same proposal. > > Blissymbolics Communication International, > http://www.blissymbolics.org/ > will likely produce the next proposal. > > Both Scripts Encoding Initiative and Blissymbolics Communication > International depend upon funding. >