On 2018/02/28 19:38, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27 2018 at 13:45 -0800, announcements_at_unicode.org writes:
>
>> The 157 new Emoji are now available for adoption, to help the Unicode
>> Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages.
>
> I'm quite curious what it the relation between the new emojis and the
> digitally disadvantages languages. I see none.
I think this was mentioned before on this list, in particular by Mark:
The money collected from character adoptions (where emoji are a
prominent target) is (mostly?) used to support work on not-yet-encoded
(thus digitally disadvantaged) scripts. See e.g. the recent announcement
at
http://blog.unicode.org/2018/02/adopt-character-grant-to-support-three.html.
Regards, Martin.
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