Re: Emoji support as a Regional Consideration (Re: Call for Participation: 35th Internationalization and Unicode Conference)

From: Leonardo Boiko (leoboiko@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2011 - 03:46:47 CST

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    I don’t really know, but perhaps because emoji are used
    primarily (exclusively?) in East Asian cellphones?

    On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 05:56, William_J_G Overington
    <wjgo_10009@btinternet.com> wrote:
    > On Tuesday 8 February 2011, announcements@unicode.org <announcements@unicode.org> wrote:
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    >> Regional Considerations
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    >> • Languages of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
    >> • Locales and the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)
    >> • Emoji support
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    > The inclusion of emoji support in this list surprised me.
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    > "Languages of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East" is about particular regions.
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    > "Locales and the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)" is about all regions, with some regions different from some other regions.
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    > Why is emoji support regarded as a regional consideration please?
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    > William Overington
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    > 9 February 2011
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Leonardo Boiko
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