Again, Unicode is not intended to and cannot ban specific designs of characters including emoji. Unicode is responsible creating a list of characters that should be supported, with the goal of making textual communication online possible through a standardised encoding. Unicode is not responsible for designing these characters, that is up to the vendors to decide. From Unicodes Website: "Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.”; "The Unicode Consortium was founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard, which specifies the representation of text in modern software products and standards.” (http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html)
If you wish that a certain vendor - like Google or Apple - democratise their process of designing characters you should make that clear to them. Posting on this list will do absolutely nothing. — > On 18 May 2017, at 19:53, Shakil Anwar via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > wrote: > > A more democratic solution is to allow the global public to both submit and > vote on emoji designs. Rather than allow a small number of (probably) north > american white males to dictate emojis in a 'colonial' process based on their > own world and personal view. > The Unicode consortium can vote to change the process and now the proposal > has been made it will speak volumes if Google, Apple etc. choose not to > democratise. > ICANN chose to democratise their processes ; so can Unicode. > > On 18 May 2017 at 15:16, Gabriel von Dehn via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org > <mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: > Hi, > > the Unicode Consortium does not and cannot “ban” vendors from designing > emojis the way they wish. Unicode merely gives recommendations on how the > characters should be displayed. Think of the different designs on different > platforms like different fonts you can use (because that is actually what > they are): They all look slightly different and no one would hold a petition > for the design of characters in a font to change. > > As for the gendered Emojis, those are in the Unicode specification now: > http://emojipedia.org/emoji-4.0/ <http://emojipedia.org/emoji-4.0/> > > If you do not like the upcoming Emoji design from Google (or anything about > the upcoming version of Android), you can report to Google directly, but > posting on this List won’t help. > > >> On 18 May 2017, at 14:40, zelpa via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org >> <mailto:unicode@unicode.org>> wrote: >> >> http://blog.emojipedia.org/rip-blobs-google-redesigns-emojis/ >> <http://blog.emojipedia.org/rip-blobs-google-redesigns-emojis/> >> >> Is this some kind of joke? Have Google put ANY thought into their emoji >> design? First they bastardise the cute blob emoji, then they make their >> emoji gendered, now they've literally just copied Apple's emoji. It's >> sickening. Disgusting. I propose we hold a petition for the Unicode >> Consortium to ban Google from designing emoji in the future, and make them >> revert back to the Android 5 designs. Everyone in favour of this please >> leave a response, anybody not in favour please rethink your opinion. > >
