Re: Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

Thanks to all who answered. The answers are very clear, but the original
message and the adoption page are in my opinion much less clear. I can
however live with it :-)

Best regards

Janusz

On Wed, Feb 28 2018 at 11:53 +0100, mark_at_macchiato.com writes:
> Also, please click through from the announcement to http://www.unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html.
>
> If it isn't apparent from that page what the relationship is, we have some work to do...
>
> Mark

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

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