Also, please click through from the announcement to http://www.unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html.
If it isn't apparent from that page what the relationship is, we have some work to do... Mark On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > On 2018/02/28 19:38, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 27 2018 at 13:45 -0800, announceme...@unicode.org writes: >> >> The 157 new Emoji are now available for adoption, to help the Unicode >>> Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages. >>> >> >> I'm quite curious what it the relation between the new emojis and the >> digitally disadvantages languages. I see none. >> > > I think this was mentioned before on this list, in particular by Mark: > The money collected from character adoptions (where emoji are a prominent > target) is (mostly?) used to support work on not-yet-encoded (thus > digitally disadvantaged) scripts. See e.g. the recent announcement at > http://blog.unicode.org/2018/02/adopt-character-grant-to-sup > port-three.html. > > Regards, Martin. >