It should be applied to all emoji. Could be fun with the poo one. Thanks, Michael McGlothlin Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 1, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Steve Swales <[email protected]> wrote: > > Personally, I love this idea, and would like to claim first authorship ๐. > Hereโs a snippet from the email I sent to my old colleagues at Apple back on > April 15th (not the 1st): > >> Hi, Apple iOS/Keyboard/Design//I18n folks, >> >> Just wanted to say, nice work on the new Emoji keyboard design and expanded >> repertoire. I desperately wish the skin tone modifiers would work on the >> beer emoji, however. Need my porter and stout. Maybe next update? For >> old times' sake? ๐ . > > -steve > >> On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:37 AM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Document L2/15-211, "Letter in support of dark beer emoji" >> <http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15221-cerveza-indio-letter.pdf>, is a >> request submitted by Cuauhtรฉmoc Moctezuma, a Mexican brewery. >> >> The letter refers to a petition with more than 22,000 signatures >> supporting such an emoji, and may have at least some commercial >> motivation ("We want the dark beer to be part of peoples >> conversations"). >> >> As an alternative to this proposal that may provide more flexibility, I >> propose adapting the Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers from U+1F3FB to >> U+1F3FF to be valid for use following U+1F37A BEER MUG or U+1F37B >> CLINKING BEER MUGS. >> >> This could be done by establishing a normative correlation between the >> Fitzpatrick scale and the Standard Reference Method (SRM), Lovibond, >> and/or European Brewery Convention (EBC) beer color scales >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_style#Appearance>. >> >> This mechanism would allow the entire spectrum of beer styles to be >> depicted, instead of dividing beers arbitrarily into "light" and "dark," >> in the same way (and for the same reason) that Unicode already supports >> a variety of skin tones. >> >> For example, a Budweiser or similar lager could be represented as >> ๐บ๐ป <1F37A, 1F3FB>, while a Newcastle Brown Ale might be ๐บ๐ฝ >> <1F37A, 1F3FD>. U+1F3FF could denote imperial stout or Baltic porter. >> There might be a need to encode an additional "Type 0" color modifier to >> extend the "light" end of the scale, such as for non-alcoholic brews, or >> for Coors Light. >> >> U+1F37B could be used to denote two beers of the same style, but for >> beers of different colors, the mechanism described in UTR #51, Section >> 2.2.1 ("Multi-Person Groupings"), involving ZWJ, could be utilized. So a >> toast between drinkers of the two beers above could be encoded as >> ๐บ๐ปโ๐บ๐ฝ <1F37A, 1F3FB, 200D, 1F37A, 1F3FD>. Longer sequences >> would also be possible, such as for beer samplers offered in some pubs >> and restaurants. >> >> I have no idea whether my proposal is more or less serious, or more or >> less likely to be adopted, than the original. >> >> -- >> Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO ๐บ๐ธ > >
