Re: How to Add Beams to Notes

2017-05-03 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
2017-05-03 9:49 GMT+02:00 Richard Wordingham via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org>: > On Tue, 2 May 2017 05:08:27 +0200 > Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > > > Consider also that the BMP is almost full, the remaining few holes > > are kept for isolated characters that may be

Re: English flag (from Re: How to Add Beams to Notes)

2017-05-03 Thread William_J_G Overington via Unicode
Ken Whistler wrote: > I suggest the following: > 10BEDE for an English flag (reminding one of Bede the Venerable) > 10CADF for a Welsh flag (harking to Cadfan ap Iago, King of Gwynedd) > 10A1BA for a Scottish flag (for Alba, of course) > Surely those would work for you! Thank you for your

Re: English flag (from Re: How to Add Beams to Notes)

2017-05-03 Thread Ken Whistler via Unicode
On 5/3/2017 3:20 AM, William_J_G Overington via Unicode wrote: Surely a single code point could be found. Single code points are being found for various emoji items on a continuing basis. Why pull up the ladder on encoding some flags each with a single code point? Yes, a single code point

Re: English flag (from Re: How to Add Beams to Notes)

2017-05-03 Thread David Faulks via Unicode
I think the UTC just wants to avoid the controversy and blame of deciding which flags are worthy of inclusion.However, I think that emoji users who are aware of Unicode will blame Unicode for whatever the vendors pickDavid Faulks

English flag (from Re: How to Add Beams to Notes)

2017-05-03 Thread William_J_G Overington via Unicode
Richard Wordingham wrote: U+1F3F4 U+E0067 U+E0062 U+E0065 U+E006E U+E0067 U+E007F (English flag) I looked at that and I realized that although I had effectively seen that encoding in http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-11.html though expressed differently, it was only when I saw

Re: How to Add Beams to Notes

2017-05-03 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Tue, 2 May 2017 05:08:27 +0200 Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > Consider also that the BMP is almost full, the remaining few holes > are kept for isolated characters that may be added to existing > scripts, or permanently reserved to avoid clashes with legacy >