On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> A zero-width joiner between two spacing symbols does not mean that they
> should overlap completely, even if it allows some limtied form of ligature
> (but mostly for true letters or letter like symbols, such as between a long
> dash and an arrow head to connect them together in a long arrow...)
> Your idea would mean that the oiner changes the width of the rainbow to
> zero, using in fact a negative placement to overlap the flag, and then
> cutting the rainbox exactly to its dimension.
>
The use
of joiner
with emoji
can be
rather different. See http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/ for details.
>
> Also the rainbow symbol alone U+1F308 is more like the one in the sky: it
> is circular, and has a central uncolored area.
> But the flag is means to be fully covered (not like the Jewish autonomous
> republic in Russia) and should be using parallel horizontal bands.
>
Vendors have a fair degree of latitude as far as shapes, and the resulting
glyph can be shown with a shape similar to the national flags, and with
horizontal bands.
> If it is encoded the flag will become certainly part of the emoji set (it
> certainly has support for it in instant messaging, soon many apps for
> mobile phones will feature it in US, Google will include it as well for
> Android and Hangouts applications, Apple for iOS. And various IRC tools.
>
> Mobile phone providers will include it even if on such LGBT topic the
> Japanese manufacturers were more "discrete" (there's still a social taboo
> even if there's some level of acceptation). It is already sent via MMS only
> as bitmap icons, but users will want to pay less to send them using SMS, or
> to send them in Twitter.
>
Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>
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