I think Emoji is totally beneficial as a communication form. Yea, it takes op some UTF space and such but they literally affect different parts of the brain then written words.<http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/smart-news/your-brain-now-processes-smiley-face-real-smile-180949732/> In this way they change the kind of communication possible. Also, so many people (especially the young) are using them, to ignore them or dismiss them would be a mistake.
I like that they were included into the character set for Unicode and I would love to talk with someone who was a decision maker on that panel for my Emoji Project. If anyone who has worked on it has some time, drop me a line! https://niki-selken.squarespace.com/#/world-translation-foundation/ Thanks, Niki Selken Working on: www.nikiselken.com <https://twitter.com/nikistyxx> <http://facebook.com/nikiselken> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Unicode mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Unicode digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Call for the experts of U+3013 (suzuki toshiya) > 2. FYI: More emoji from Chrome (Mark Davis ??) > 3. Re: FYI: More emoji from Chrome (Philippe Verdy) > 4. Re: FYI: More emoji from Chrome (Mark Davis ??) > 5. Re: FYI: More emoji from Chrome (Mathias Bynens) > 6. Bidi reordering of soft hyphen (James Clark) > 7. Re: FYI: More emoji from Chrome (Ilya Zakharevich) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: suzuki toshiya <[email protected]> > To: Unicode Discussion <[email protected]> > Cc: > Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:28:26 +0900 > Subject: Call for the experts of U+3013 > Dear all, > > Today I submitted a preliminary proposal to standardize > Variation Selectors for U+3013, so-called "GETA" mark. > > ftp://std.dkuug.dk/ftp.anonymous/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4572.pdf > > The geta mark was introduced from JIS X 0208:1990 and > GB 2312-1980. When I check the original documents > including the geta mark, some of the representative glyphs > in these regional standards are different from original > geta mark. I investigated theoretically possible visual > shapes of the geta mark, and concluded the registry-based > standardization of the geta mark is a considerable option. > > Unfortunately, the officially printed matters including > the geta mark is not popular (I found only a few books > in Japanese national diet library), so I want to hear the > comments from the geta expert for the official proposal. > > Regards, > mpsuzuki > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Mark Davis ☕️" <[email protected]> > To: Unicode Public <[email protected]> > Cc: > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:01:39 +0200 > Subject: FYI: More emoji from Chrome > More emoji from Chrome: > > http://chrome.blogspot.ch/2014/04/a-faster-mobiler-web-with-emoji.html > > with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NXNnoGr3Y > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > To: "Mark Davis ☕️" <[email protected]> > Cc: Unicode Public <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:13:39 +0200 > Subject: Re: FYI: More emoji from Chrome > April 1st joke... > > > 2014-04-01 9:01 GMT+02:00 Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]>: > >> More emoji from Chrome: >> >> http://chrome.blogspot.ch/2014/04/a-faster-mobiler-web-with-emoji.html >> >> with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NXNnoGr3Y >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Unicode mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >> >> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Mark Davis ☕️" <[email protected]> > To: verdy_p <[email protected]> > Cc: Unicode Public <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:20:59 +0200 > Subject: Re: FYI: More emoji from Chrome > Yup! > > > Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis> > > *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* > > > On 1 April 2014 09:13, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> April 1st joke... >> >> >> 2014-04-01 9:01 GMT+02:00 Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]>: >> >>> More emoji from Chrome: >>> >>> http://chrome.blogspot.ch/2014/04/a-faster-mobiler-web-with-emoji.html >>> >>> with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NXNnoGr3Y >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Unicode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >>> >>> >> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mathias Bynens <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Mark Davis ☕️" <[email protected]>, Unicode Public < > [email protected]> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:25:29 +0200 > Subject: Re: FYI: More emoji from Chrome > On 1 Apr 2014, at 09:13, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > April 1st joke... > > Sure – it really works, though. Try it out. Kinda cool :) > > I would’ve preferred if Google had finally implemented support for proper > emoji in OS X, though: > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62435 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: James Clark <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:51:11 +0700 > Subject: Bidi reordering of soft hyphen > Suppose I have a paragraph (uppercase = RTL): > > CARROT IS car\u00ADrot IN ENGLISH > > and the paragraph gets broken at the soft hyphen. > > Is the correct ordering for the first line > > car- SI TORRAC > > or > > -car SI TORRAC > > ? I did not succeed in deducing the answer from UAX#9. Soft hyphen has > bidi class BN, which means it gets removed in stage X9, and so, if I have > understood correctly, doesn't have a defined embedding level. > > I'm guessing the correct ordering is the first one, but I don't trust my > instincts here. (In particular, I wondered whether this was analogous to > the case where rule L1 resets embedding levels so that trailing whitespace > is at the visual end of the line.) > > More generally, suppose you have a markup language which has a construct > for discretionary breaks, as in TeX, with pre-break, post-break and > no-break text. Soft hyphen is a special case of this (where the pre-break > text consists of a hyphen, and the pos and no-break texts are empty); you > can also regard space as a kind of discretionary break (post-break text > empty, no-break text contains the space, pre-break text either contains the > space or is empty, depending on how you want to think about it). Obviously > the embedding level for the no-break text should be resolved as if > discretionary break was replaced by the no-break text (which is consistent > with a bidi class of BN for soft hyphen). However, for the pre- and > post-break text, it is not clear to me what the right way is to resolve > embedding levels (or how their content should be restricted so that there > is a sensible way to resolve the embedding levels). I would be grateful for > any suggestions. > > James > > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]> > To: Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]> > Cc: Unicode Public <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:43:43 -0700 > Subject: Re: FYI: More emoji from Chrome > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:01:39AM +0200, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: > > More emoji from Chrome: > > > > http://chrome.blogspot.ch/2014/04/a-faster-mobiler-web-with-emoji.html > > > > with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3NXNnoGr3Y > > I do not know… The demos leave me completely unimpressed: emoji — by > their nature — require higher resolution than text, so an emoji for > “pie” does not save any place comparing to the word itself. So the > impact of this on everyday English-languare communication would not be > in any way beneficial. > > However, this MAY be a beginning of revolution in scientific > communication. Science-and-about publications contains very long > words in abundance, and it is HERE where impact of emojification > should be felt the most! So I think the task of emojification of > scientific terms — be it “secularization”, “gamma-globulin”, or > “derived ∞-category” — should be at elevated priority in the Unicode > commitees. > > The general public often considers scientific publications are too > dense, and does not bother to read many scienific journals. What > Google did is a beginning of a major step forward in making > contemporary science (finally!) accessible to general public. > > Ilya > > > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > >
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