Aw: Re: Symbols of colors used in Portugal for transport

2019-05-01 Thread Marius Spix via Unicode
Unicode characters are already using a technique called hatching.   For example LARGE RED CIRCLE (U+1F534) has thin vertical stripes, which is recognized as red.   See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_(heraldry)   Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. April 2019 um 21:17 Uhr Von: "Hans Åberg

Emoji boom?

2019-05-01 Thread Shriramana Sharma via Unicode
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm The number of emoji-related proposals seems to be increasing compared to the number of script-related ones. Have we reached a plateau re scripts encoding? Somehow this seems sad to me considering the great role Unicode played in bringing Indic scripts

RE: Emoji boom?

2019-05-01 Thread Phillips, Addison via Unicode
Why is this surprising? Encoding a script is many many orders of magnitude more complex than encoding emoji. This is especially true given that the scripts that remain unencoded are largely used by small populations (or, in the case of historic scripts, by *no* population at all). It is a

Re: Emoji boom?

2019-05-01 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 5/1/2019 3:23 AM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm The number of emoji-related proposals seems to be increasing compared to the number of script-related ones. Have we reached a plateau re scripts encoding? Somehow