Re: Thoughts on Emoji Selection Process

From: James Kass via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:25:46 -0800

Charlotte Buff wrote,

> A squirrel is too similar to a chipmunk, but a
> softball must be disunified from a baseball.

Let's not be too harsh on the ESC. The set of in-line pictures which
some might use to adorn text is open-ended. The ESC has to deal with
the really tough questions every day. Like, is there a semantic
difference between PICTURE OF SQUIRREL vs. PICTURE OF CHIPMUNK or
BASEBALL vs. SOFTBALL or AUSTALOPITHECINE RIDING THREE-LEGGED HORSE
vs. AUSTALOPITHECINE WITH MOHAWK RIDING THREE-LEGGED HORSE, and so
forth. I wouldn't be able to make such difficult decisions without
flipping a coin, so I'd doff my hat to the ESC if I wore one.
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