From: Christopher Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 20:39:28 CST
André Szabolcs Szelp wrote:
> Actually, even in the domain of emoji, how do you define character
> identity? How do you know that a "Chick" is a different character
> entity of "Hatching Chick", how do you know they are not mere *glyph
> variants* of the character FLEDGELING?? Having had assigned different
> private JIS-codes in the operators' private standard does not make
> them different characters, as we've seen it with preexisting standards
> of Arabic (having a codepoints for every positional variant) or the
> previously cited Chinese national standard using PUA for precomposed
> Tibetan glyphs!
BTW This is not hypothetical, there are already cell phones available in
Tibet which use a pre-composed Tibetan character set:
<http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=30325>.
- Chris
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