From: Christopher Fynn (chris.fynn@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2011 - 07:13:29 CST
How is the mapping from the old (phone company) Emoji character
encoding to the new official Unicode encoding handled? Couldn't
something similar be done?
A nasty (but probably effective) way of handling it would be to simply
map the glyphs in an updated Wingdings font to both the PUA codepoint
and an official codepoint.
- C
On 25/01/2011, Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Various people have indicated at one time or another that they would work on
> a proposal to encode wingdings, etc. But I haven't seen any such proposals
> submitted yet.
>
> Of course, if an when such symbols get encoded in Unicode, there will just
> be a different problem to sort out: today, you can interchange text
> meaningfully with someone else so long as the Wingdings (or Webdings, etc.
> as appropriate) font is used. It doesn't work for plain text, but it
> evidently works reasonably well with rich text (since the font formatting is
> retained). But once in Unicode, data using the new character will not be
> interchangeable with the large amount of legacy data out there.
>
>
> Peter
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