On 2015/07/29 23:27, Andrew West wrote:
On 29 July 2015 at 14:42, William_J_G Overington
My diet can include soya
There already is, you can write "My diet can include soya".
If you are likely to swell up and die if you eat a peanut (for
example), you will not want to trust your life to an emoji picture of
a peanut which could be mistaken for something else
Yes, in the worst case for something like "I like peanuts".
or rendered as a
square box for the recipient. There may be a case to be made for
encoding symbols for food allergens for labelling purposes, but there
is no case for encoding such symbols as a form of symbolic language
for communication of dietary requirements.
Andrew
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