Re: Keying emoji characters using an ordinary keyboard (from Re: "ASCII" emoji in iOS4)

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Jun 30 2010 - 14:27:12 CDT

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    William Overington asked:

    > Will the Unicode Standard version 6.0 include mention of
    > the unification of characters from the emoji set used in
    > mobile telephones with earlier Unicode characters, also
    > including a list of those characters of the emoji set
    > that have been unified and where to find them in the code charts?

    Yes. Please see:

    http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/ucd/EmojiSources-6.0.0d1.txt

    > Will a person seeking to translate from the Private Use Area
    > codes of present day mobile telephones to Unicode using the
    > Unicode Standard version 6.0 documents alone be able to find
    > easily how he or she should translate the yacht symbol of the
    > mobile telephone, bearing in mind that he or she may not be
    > familiar with the term SAILBOAT for a yacht or a sailing dinghy?

    From the above data file:

    26F5;F947;F68D;F95C

    --Ken

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