Asmus Freytag wrote: >> Given that one co-chair of the Emoji Subcommittee is from Apple and >> the other is from Google, you may wish to rethink your expectations >> about all this. > > I'd expect "zelpa" to feel validated by this info in their concern, > wouldn't you?
Well, it's public information: http://www.unicode.org/emoji/ The more important point is the one others have been making: Unicode does not and cannot attempt to dictate to any vendor how to design glyphs, either for normal characters like A and Ω and 丱 or for emoji. Unicode does insist that the glyph design not misrepresent the meaning of the character, which I believe was Michael Everson's objection to vendors implementing U+1F3B1 BILLIARDS as a lone 8-ball. It's not clear to me that the Google redesign discussed here goes that far; this seems more like objection on aesthetic grounds. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org