Re: Olympic sports emoji

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Garth Wallace <gwalla_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org> wrote:
>> Leo Broukhis <leob at mailcom dot com> wrote:
>>
>>> Fonts vary and can be copyrighted, no doubt, but Unicode is not about
>>> fonts.
>>
>> I was going to bust out the Apple logo as an analogy to the Olympic
>> symbols, but apparently the Apple logo is trademarked and not merely
>> copyrighted, so never mind.
>>
>> In any case, if this is just a character/glyph thing, then there
>> shouldn't be a problem using either the existing emoji or the ones
>> proposed in L2/15-196R for Olympic sports, since the glyphs can simply
>> be styled as needed.
>
> Would this be considered within the normal range of glyphic variation?
> Would an icon of two pugilists fighting be an acceptable rendering of
> a BOXING GLOVE emoji?
>
> BTW, speaking as a martial artist myself, I have to say an empty dogi
> is an odd representation for martial arts, even specifically Japanese
> ones. The proposal says that it could be used for judo, karate, and
> tae kwon do; it at least matches the first two (they are distinct, but
> not in a way that would , and practice uniforms for TKD are similar,
> but competitive TKD under WTF rules (including Olympic competition)
> uses several pieces of protective equipment (helmet, gloves, chest
> guard) with colored padding over the dobok.

Also, has anyone else noticed that the proposed WRESTLING emoji
doesn't depict competitive wrestling? It's a pair of shirtless men in
baggy pants standing straight up, with one apparently grabbing the
other by the ponytail and hitting his face.
Received on Mon Aug 03 2015 - 15:23:04 CDT