Re: Curly Lips Code Point Proposal

2017-01-24 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
ere are a > few images found through a web search for "cat face": > > > > ​ > ​ > > > > ​ > ​ > Here's the relevant TVTropes article: > http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CatSmile > > (TVTropes, incidentally, is one of the many web forums wh

Curly Lips Code Point Proposal

2017-01-24 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
I'd like to bring to your attention a request, about a common emoticon, that has apparently no equivalent yet in the Emoji standard. This was a PR to the Twemoji project: https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/issues/199 The author also created a proper PDF explaining all the reasons: Proposal for

Re: Whitespace characters in Unicode

2016-08-04 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not a Unicode expert, but I couldn't stop thinking about the following > comic after reading "I am trying to come up with a sensible sets of > characters that are considered whitespace&q

Re: Whitespace characters in Unicode

2016-08-04 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
I'm not a Unicode expert, but I couldn't stop thinking about the following comic after reading "I am trying to come up with a sensible sets of characters that are considered whitespace" https://xkcd.com/927/ Apologies for bringing pretty much nothing to this discussion but I'm pretty sure there's

About cultural/languages communities flags

2015-02-09 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Hello everyone, I've had an interesting request [1] that makes sense to me, but I'd like to understand Unicode position about it. The TL;DR version of the request is the following: There are communities, let's take Scottish people as example, that have even a domain but not an emoji flag.

Re: About cultural/languages communities flags

2015-02-09 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Thanks, that was somehow indeed my very first concern. Everyone could claim an emoji, at that point. Enough info for me so far, so thanks again. Best Regards On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Markus Scherer markus@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Andrea Giammarchi

(R), (c) and ™

2014-12-18 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Hello there, I wonder if it's by accident that 00AE, 00A9, and 2122 are not listed as standard variant sensitive chars. OSX seems to threat them as such, so adding FE0F will force them to be an image, but I know there are few quirks in this behavior and I wonder if there should be an exception.

Re: (R), (c) and ™

2014-12-18 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
use with a non-emoji presentation (typical for characters that have been in Unicode for a long time). Mark https://google.com/+MarkDavis *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Andrea Giammarchi andrea.giammar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark, I mean

Re: (R), (c) and ™

2014-12-18 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
yeahright :D On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Jonathan Rosenne jonathan.rose...@gmail.com wrote: To pick a nit, it should be COPYRIGHT rather than COPY RIGHT. Best Regards, Jonathan Rosenne *From:* Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] *On Behalf Of *Andrea Giammarchi

Re: (R), (c) and ™

2014-12-18 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
I'd say highly subjective, generally speaking, but the problem here is that there are graphics representations of those and it's not clear when these should be preferred over just plain text representation. Hence my initial question if it was by accident that those chars got in (and yeah, maybe

Open Source Emoji for the Web

2014-11-06 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
I'd like to thank those that helped me a while ago figuring out variants and emoji behavior. Today we are open sourcing a relatively small JS library and 800+ CDN based assets able to bring unified emoji in every WebView capable device and browser. We are also planning to implement the recently

Re: Open Source Emoji for the Web

2014-11-06 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
this project. Will spread the call for contribution! Please share the URL for open source code + asset repo :-) Best, Alolita On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Andrea Giammarchi andrea.giammar...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to thank those that helped me a while ago figuring out variants and emoji

Re: Open Source Emoji for the Web

2014-11-06 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
/+MarkDavis *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Andrea Giammarchi andrea.giammar...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to thank those that helped me a while ago figuring out variants and emoji behavior. Today we are open sourcing a relatively small JS library and 800+ CDN

meaningful and meaningless FE0E

2014-06-29 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Dear all, this is my first email in this channel so apologies in advance if already discussed. I am trying to understand the expected behavior when there an unexpected VS15 after emoji that have not been defined, accordingly with this file http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NamesList.txt, as

Re: meaningful and meaningless FE0E

2014-06-29 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Andrea Giammarchi andrea.giammar...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, this is my first email in this channel so apologies in advance if already discussed. I am trying to understand the expected behavior when there an unexpected VS15 after emoji that have

Re: meaningful and meaningless FE0E

2014-06-29 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt Mark https://google.com/+MarkDavis *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Andrea Giammarchi andrea.giammar...@gmail.com wrote: ok, here the simplified version of my question: would U+1F21A followed by U+FE0E

Re: meaningful and meaningless FE0E

2014-06-29 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
richard.wording...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:33:17 -0700 Andrea Giammarchi andrea.giammar...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to understand the expected behavior when there an unexpected VS15 after emoji that have not been defined, accordingly with this file http

Re: meaningful and meaningless FE0E

2014-06-29 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Andrea Giammarchi andrea.giammar...@gmail.com wrote: ...no keyboard would automatically put such sequence in a text field since such sequence as it is is meaningless for today standards. While perhaps no keyboard would map it to a single keystroke plus modifiers, direct hex input