Re: Coloured Characters

2018-02-22 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:55:23 + (GMT) William_J_G Overington wrote: > Richard Wordingham wrote: > > > 'Foreground' and 'background' are the only externally defined > > colours. There's no ability to explicitly choose, say 'text stroked > > sable and dotted gules'.

Re: Coloured Characters (was: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?)

2018-02-21 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:04:34 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > On the opposite, colored in Arabic or hieroglyph texts is a a useful > emphasize and sometimes semantically significant (some rare old > scripts also used dictinctive colors): we are in a case similar to

Re: Coloured Characters (was: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?)

2018-02-21 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
I'm not speaking about hieroglyphs, even if they are perfectly readable in monochrome on monuments. I was just saying that colorful **emojis** are just a nuisance and colors in them do not add any semantic value (except possibly flags, skin tones were added only to avoid a never-ending battle on

Coloured Characters (was: 0027, 02BC, 2019, or a new character?)

2018-02-21 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:28:14 +0100 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > I even hope that there will be a setting in all browsers, OS'es, > mobiles, and apps to refuse any colorful rendering, and just render > them as monochromatic symbols. In summary, COMPLETETY DISABLE the >