Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters)

Peter,

This very topic was discussed in last meeting of the subcommittee and my
impression is that there are plans to promote the use of embedded graphics
(aka stickers) either through expansions to section 8 of TR51 or through
some other means. It should also be noted that none of current members of
Unicode seem to have a sticker-based implementation (with the exception of
an experimental limited trial by Twitter[1]).

[1]: http://mashable.com/2015/04/16/twitter-star-wars-emoji/

↪ Shervin

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Peter Constable <petercon_at_microsoft.com>
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> And yet UTC devotes lots of effort (with an entire subcommittee) to
> encode more emoji as characters, but no effort toward any preferred longer
> term solution not based on characters.
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> Peter
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> *From:* Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces_at_unicode.org] *On Behalf Of *Shervin
> Afshar
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 14, 2015 2:27 PM
> *To:* wjgo_10009_at_btinternet.com
> *Cc:* unicode_at_unicode.org
> *Subject:* Re: Tag characters
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> Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the
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> section 8 Longer Term Solutions
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> IMO, the industry preferred longer term solution (which is also discussed
> in that section with few existing examples) for emoji, is not going to be
> based on characters.
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> ↪ Shervin
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> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:40 PM, William_J_G Overington <
> wjgo_10009_at_btinternet.com> wrote:
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> > What else would be possible if the same sort of technique were applied
> to another base character?
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> Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the
> requirements of
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> section 8 Longer Term Solutions
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> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2.html
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> Both colour pixel map and colour OpenType vector font solutions would be
> possible.
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> Colour voxel map and colour vector 3d solids solutions are worth thinking
> about too as fun coding thought experiments that could possibly lead to
> useful practical results.
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> William Overington
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> 14 May 2015
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Received on Thu May 14 2015 - 22:13:20 CDT