Re: Emoji: Public Review December 2008

From: Christopher Fynn (chris.fynn@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Dec 21 2008 - 23:40:29 CST


On 22/12/2008, John H. Jenkins <jenkins@apple.com> wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Christopher Fynn wrote:

>> Asmus, If cell phone carriers in Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan start using
>> the Ashtamangala / Tashi Tarjey / Eight Auspicious Symbols on their
>> cell phone networks - then do these also become good candidates for
>> encoding?
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtamangala>

> At least one of them is already encoded, U+2638 WHEEL OF DHARMA.

The wheel in the set of eight auspicious symbols is the "Wheel of the
Chakravartin" which is arguably semantically somewhat different than
the "Wheel of Dharma"

- C



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