Re: Tag characters

The consortium is in no position to enhance protocols *itself* for
exchanging images. That's firmly in other groups' hands. We can try to
noodge them a bit, but what *will* make a difference is when the *vendors*
of sticker solutions put pressure on the different groups responsible for
the protocols to provide interoperability for images. Because there is a
lot of growth in sticker solutions, I would expect there to be more such
pressure. And even so, I expect it will take those some time to be deployed.

We've said what our longer-term position is, and I think we all pretty much
agree with that; exchanging images is much more flexible. However, we do
have strong short-term pressure to show that we are responsive and
responsible in adding emoji. And our adding a reasonable number of emoji
per year is not going to stop Line or Skype from adding stickers!

There are a few possible scenarios, and it's hard to predict the results.
It could be that emoji are largely supplanted by stickers in 5 years; could
be 10; could be that they both coexist indefinitely. I have no 🔮, and
neither does anyone else...

Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Peter Constable <petercon_at_microsoft.com>
wrote:

> 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 Fri May 15 2015 - 19:20:16 CDT